ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, Second Edition
Author: Carol A Ptak
Completely revised and updated, ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, Second Edition describes, from the perspective of a business manager, concepts and tools for enterprise planning, management, and execution. The text is written in an easy-to-read format, with many real examples from a variety of industries that illustrate key points. This book can be used over and over, as a quick reference to obtain insight into ERP topics. The Second Edition introduces many new topics, including:
· Supplier relationship management (SRM)
· Strategic sourcing
· Throughput supply chain measures such as inventory dollar days and throughput dollar days
· Product Life Cycle Management (PLM)
· Technology architecture choices
· Customer relationship management With the help of a supplemental CD containing a Management Interactive Case Study System (MICSS), this volume explains the application of ERP tools and techniques to different types of businesses, and enables you to test the concepts in a computer simulation model. You can control the dynamics of handling an ERP program within a virtual company, and learn from the resulting analysis of how to guide to this company to financial success. This simulation package allows you to test your newly acquired knowledge before implementing your chosen ERP system.
Table of Contents:
| Forewords | ||
| Preface | ||
| About the Author and Simulation Team | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| MICSS Program | ||
| How to Use This Book | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Sect. I | Enterprise Management | |
| 1 | History of Enterprise Resource Planning | 3 |
| 2 | The Theory of Constraints and ERP | 17 |
| 3 | Sales and Operations Planning | 43 |
| 4 | Buffer Resource Strategy | 77 |
| 5 | Enterprise Resource Management | 101 |
| 6 | Integrating the Supply Chain to Reap the Rewards | 123 |
| 7 | Strategic Sourcing and Procurement | 143 |
| Sect. II | Operations Management | |
| 8 | Operations Planning (Material and Capacity Requirements Planning) | 155 |
| 9 | Product Life Cycle Management | 195 |
| 10 | Manufacturing Execution System | 213 |
| 11 | Distribution | 237 |
| Sect. III | ERP Selection and Implementation | |
| 12 | ERP System Requirements | 271 |
| 13 | Selecting the Right ERP System | 287 |
| 14 | Data Record Accuracy | 305 |
| 15 | Implementation - Generalized Industry Application | 325 |
| 16 | Repetitive Manufacturing Application | 351 |
| 17 | Process Industry Application | 369 |
| 18 | Remanufacturing | 379 |
| 19 | Project Manufacturing | 391 |
| 20 | Customer Relationship and Service | 407 |
| Sect. IV | Application | |
| Appendix | 421 | |
| Index | 427 |
Cookin' the Book$: Say Pasta la Vista to Corporate Accounting Tricks and Fraud
Author: Don Silver
If you own stocks or mutual funds or have an IRA or retirement plan, protect yourself against corporate food poisoning by reading Cookin' the Book$: Say Pasta La Vista to Corporate Accounting Tricks and Fraud. This book may become your veritable financial food taster.
Through this humorous, yet enlightening tale of a corporate chef's wise advice to his son, discover the cookin' secrets of corporate accounting that can turn into financial disaster for you. See how to spot the tricks and how to avoid them--maybe even make our corporations and their leaders more ethical in the process.
Finances (and food) will never be the same after you digest this book.
About the Author
Don Silver is a personal finance columnist, writer, editor and the author of eight highly praised books including Baby Boomer Retirement ("Astute and provocative"—Los Angeles Times) and The Generation X Money Book ("Outstanding book"—USAToday.com). He is also an educational consultant for The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition Teacher Guide.
Consumer education and economics teacher (retired) - Joseph Lee
Excellent book. I couldn't put it down.
Ph.D., President of the Center for Academic Integrity (Duke University), Founding Director of the Center for Ethics and Public Life and Chair of the Philosophy Department, Kings College - Margaret Monahan Hogan
Don Silver's Cookin' the Book$ is a necessary primer on the deceptive accounting practices of some contemporary firms.
Midwest Book Review
Cookin' the Book$ by Don Silver is invaluable and very strongly recommended.
Publishers Weekly
Humorous parable!
Peter McGuire Wolf
With Cookin' the Book$, a new genre of literature has emerged: business ethics entertainment! Cookin' the Book$ stands alone as one of the funniest and straightforward works on business ethics in corporate America today.
UCLA Department of Business and Management Extension Instructor - Judy Shane
A great read. Silver is a financial genius with a bent for telling stories.
President, Healthy Hour Enterprises - Robert L. Rosebrock
Brilliantly written, easy to read and with words to live and invest by. Don Silver is the new Og Mandino of ethical inspiration for the 21st century. A must read for anyone who doesn't want to get burned by the 'book cookers.
CPA - Marilyn Ziemann
In Cookin' the Book$ Don Silver serves up savory tales of unsavory corporate shenanigans, both past and present, to teach financial statement analysis in a palatable and even digestible form.
CPA and President, Vasin, Heyn & Company (Auditors) - Rolland Vasin
Don Silver serves up tasty wisdom for accounting-challenged investors who just can't afford to lose their bread.
Business Start Page
Cookin' the Book$ is a delicious and perfectly cooked meal delivered in tasty morsels - a full menu of dirty tricks to watch out for.
Hyatt
Excellent book. Maybe our next generation of corporate leaders can be encouraged by Cookin' the Book$ to become the women and men of character America needs.— Board member of the Center for Academic Integrity (Duke University) and Board member of the Character Education Partnership
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