Sustainability is an increasingly urgent and important factor in logistics and supply chain management, impacting the whole supply chain lifecycle from product design and development, to supplier management, packaging, transportation, warehousing and distribution.
This engaging book encourages us to tap into humanity’s highest ideals to solve environmental and social problems and become better people in the process.
Marketing to Millennials is both an enlightening look at this generation of spend-happy consumers and a practical plan for earning their trust and loyalty.
Using a sophisticated approach that unifies the three key areas of supply chain strategies, sales and operations planning (SOP), and lean manufacturing, The Market-Driven Supply Chain is the only book that takes a comprehensive approach to succeeding in today's on-demand environment.
A well-designed and implemented incentive program is an essential tool for building a motivated, highly effective sales force that delivers the results you need.
Over the last decade Lean and Six Sigma methods and tools have helped organizations improve to historic productivity levels with the data driven, systematic elimination of waste and improvement of flow.
Virtually every business seeks to increase its profit from customers, but few business executives realize that a universal principle governs their customer profitability.
Every company must continually wrestle with the problem of deciding the right quantity and mix of products or services that it should produce as well as when and where to produce them.
The purpose of this book is to trace the history of globalization and its impact on supply chain management and to look at the problems and some of the solutions facing global supply chains in the current era.
Contemporary sales organizations are spending billions of dollars or euros on sales technologies with the objective of streamlining the sales process, enhancing sales force productivity, and improving customer relationships.
The New Sustainability Advantage shows how the benefits of the "e;triple bottom line"e; can increase a typical company's profit by at least 51 to 81% within five years, depending on the company's size and industry sector, while avoiding risks that could jeopardize its financial wellbeing.
The Retail Value Chain analyses the changes in the retail industry such as internationalization and consolidation and looks at the strategic options open to companies.
In diesem essential wird anhand von praktischen Beispielen erläutert, wie die Anlagenproduktivität von produzierenden Unternehmen durch Einführung des OEE-Managements gesteigert werden kann.
The book is one of the first ones focussing on how organisations (civil society, corporations, and public sector ones) are contributing to sustainability.
Contributing to research, knowledge, and discourse on humanitarian logistics and supply chains in Africa, Supply Networks in Developing Countries introduces a unique perspective on the developing world, and how their supply networks can be enhanced and optimized.
What would you get if you combined an entrepreneur, a technologist, a financier, and a strategist/ecologist with an international chef, corporate lawyer, architect, and more?
Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal.
Digital transformation in organisations can improve business agility, operational efficiency, customer service, and contribute to sustainability initiatives.
Para las compañías, la sustentabilidad no es un simple caso de ganancias versus planeta, sino más bien en cambio un tema más sutil sobre (alguna) gente versus (otra) gente, aquellos buscando trabajo y bienes baratos versus otros que buscan un medioambiente puro.
Die besondere Relevanz multinationaler Unternehmen im Kontext des Klimawandels ergibt sich aus deren globaler Wirkung ohne Beschränkung auf einzelne Länder.
This book focuses on the legal and social aspects of corporate governance through doctrinal and empirical research papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Governance Fraud Ethics and Social Responsibility held at National Law University Delhi in 2018.
Increasing evidence of environmental deterioration in emerging markets, climate change, and consequences of environmental waste have compelled not only businesses but also consumers to reduce the environmental burden, mitigate waste and preserve resources for future generations.
This book enables readers to develop their own creative thinking and their teams' creative problem-solving skills to generate novel, useful and surprising ideas.
