Arnd Huchzermeier

Christoph H. Loch

Luk N. van Wassenhove

Ludo van der Heyden

Cedric Escalle

What does "excellent manufacturing management" mean? Management texts to date have emphasized that it is, above methods such as SPC or TQM, a matter of "intangibles" and "culture". This book takes the myth out of management excellence; it can be learned and practiced. First, manage the three core processes, strategy deployment, product and process development, and the supply chain. And secondly, pay attention to the dimension of management quality, direction setting, integration and delegation, communication, participation, measurement, and employee development. This book explains management quality and demonstrates how it is implemented, with ten plant tours through world-class factories from different industries.

Management Quality in Manufacturing

Industrial Excellence

Moritz Fleischmann

Karl Inderfurth

Rommert Dekker

This book addresses decision making in reverse logistics, which concerns the integration of used and obsolete products back into the supply chain as valuable resources. It covers a wide range of aspects, related to distribution, production and inventory management, and supply chain management. For each topic, it highlights key managerial issues in real-life examples and explains which quantitative models are available for addressing them. By treating a broad range of issues in a unified way, the book offers the reader a comprehensive view on the field of reverse logistics.

Quantitative Models for Closed-Loop Supply Chains

Reverse Logistics

Willem J. A. M. Overmeer

Charles J. Corbett

challenges and opportunities for the reneewal of OR

Cooperation between strands of practice

Simme Douwe Flapper

Jo van Nunen

Closed-Loop Supply Chains (CLSC) offer companies a unique opportunity to improve their profits whilst serving societal responsibility. The management of CLSC differs in a number of ways from managing supply chains in general. The book examines these differences and how these differences may be dealt with in practice, by offering a concrete framework, introducing the different aspects related to CLSC and their mutual relations, in a systematic logical way as well as cases clustered according to the inputs for a CLSC. The framework and especially the cases from successful companies offer the reader an invaluable help to build and improve CLSC.

Managing Closed-Loop Supply Chains

Luk N. van Wassenhove

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