Common Sense Supply Management

Common Sense Supply Management
Author: Tom DePaoli
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781477686454

Common Sense Supply Management is a no-holds-barred practical guide to supply management and process improvement. If you dislike consultants, buzzwords and theory, then this non-traditional book is meant for you. Straight forward and to the point, the book will be difficult to put down until you have finished the supply management adventure. Dr. Tom DePaoli, a veteran supply management pro, learned his lessons the hard way and wants to share his valuable insights with all business professionals. Visit www.commonsensesupplymanagement.com

Common Sense Purchasing

Common Sense Purchasing
Author: Tom DePaoli
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2003-11-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781594572500

Common Sense Purchasing reveals the real life lessons learned from a purchasing professional who has seen every purchasing job level from junior buyer to vice president. Purchasing is the art of relationships and trust building that requires deft handling. Dr. Tom DePaoli has led numerous efforts to reengineer purchasing and has successfully negotiated international supply agreements. He provides poignant insights into what really works in purchasing and separates the theory that doesn't work from the practical aspects that were very successful in his career. Dr. Tom uses many of his original sayings and hard knock lessons to help purchasing professionals get it right.

Common Sense Talent Management

Common Sense Talent Management
Author: Steven T. Hunt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2014-02-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470442417

A comprehensive guide to using strategic HR methods to increase company performance. This book explains what strategic human resources means, how it differs from other HR activities, and why it is critical to business performance. It walks through key questions for designing, deploying and integrating different strategic HR processes including staffing, performance management, compensation, succession management, and development. The book also addresses the role of technology in strategic HR, and discusses how to get companies to support, adopt, and maintain effective strategic HR processes. The book includes dozens of illustrative examples of effective and ineffective strategic HR using stories drawn from a range of companies and industries.

Making Common Sense Common Practice

Making Common Sense Common Practice
Author: Ron Moore
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780750678216

Presenting the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a case study of a fictional company called Beta International, Moore illustrates how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, maximize asset utilization, apply benchmarks and best practices, and improve many other aspects that ultimately raise your company's performance to the level of world-class. 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' takes a good, hard look at plant design, procurement, parts management, installation and maintenance, training, and implementing a computerized maintenance management system. In discussing the successes and failures of the world's premier manufacturers, Moore outlines a stable path of growth for almost any manufacturing company. In today's tough competitive markets, 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' greatly enhances your company's chance to succeed - and profit. * Third edition features updating plus new sections on innovation, change management, and leadership * Presents proven models for achieving world-class performance based on real-life case histories * Highly readable, concrete style brings the key points to life through a case study of a fictitious organization, Beta International, which runs throughout the book, based on real case histories

Supply Chain Management For Dummies

Supply Chain Management For Dummies
Author: Daniel Stanton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2017-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119410207

Everyone can impact the supply chain Supply Chain Management For Dummies helps you connect the dots between things like purchasing, logistics, and operations to see how the big picture is affected by seemingly isolated inefficiencies. Your business is a system, made of many moving parts that must synchronize to most efficiently meet the needs of your customers—and your shareholders. Interruptions in one area ripple throughout the entire operation, disrupting the careful coordination that makes businesses successful; that's where supply chain management (SCM) comes in. SCM means different things to different people, and many different models exist to meet the needs of different industries. This book focuses on the broadly-applicable Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model: Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return, and Enable, to describe the basic techniques and key concepts that keep businesses running smoothly. Whether you're in sales, HR, or product development, the decisions you make every day can impact the supply chain. This book shows you how to factor broader impact into your decision making process based on your place in the system. Improve processes by determining your metrics Choose the right software and implement appropriate automation Evaluate and mitigate risks at all steps in the supply chain Help your business function as a system to more effectively meet customer needs We tend to think of the supply chain as suppliers, logistics, and warehousing—but it's so much more than that. Every single person in your organization, from the mailroom to the C-suite, can work to enhance or hinder the flow. Supply Chain Management For Dummies shows you what you need to know to make sure your impact leads to positive outcomes.

Leaders Ought to Know

Leaders Ought to Know
Author: Phillip Van Hooser
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 111852926X

This guide will get all leaders, new leaders, mid-level or executive managers, familiar with the ground rules of leadership. It covers how to do more of the right things while avoiding the common leadership mistakes that trip up so many.

Common-Sense Income Strategies

Common-Sense Income Strategies
Author: Michael Eastham
Publisher: Advisor's Academy Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780997544145

Common-sense, purpose-based investing for your retirement with steps and strategies to help you. This book begins with the idea that when we reach the age of 50, we need to change from a portfolio filled with stocks and growth investment strategies to step-by-step strategies to build out your retirement income. Eastham's book is based on the golden rules of reality-based investing; complete with helpful tips to help you reach your retirement goals.