Free (Kindle/Nook) The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain [Business Resource Management]

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The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies by Robert Palevich provides business advice for exactly what it says in the title, free courtesy of publisher FT Press' Operations Management series.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians). May show up in the UK and at B&N later.

Description
The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain presents a complete framework for building a world-class supply chain that is both lean and green.

Robert Palevich shows organizations how they can increasingly leverage complex, content-rich information environments to drive breakthrough cost reduction and environmental benefit.

Palevich introduces ideas, strategies, and technologies drawn from more than 30 years running supply chains at Do it Best Corp. and collaborating with leaders such as GE, 3M, Sherwin Williams, and Black & Decker. He presents best-practice implementation techniques and matches them with detailed guidance for scorecarding improvements in productivity, cost, and environmental impact. Chapters conclude by summarizing realistically achievable savings and their bottom line impact.

Whatever your supply chain responsibilities, this book will help you drive the next generation of performance improvement--building supply chains that are more responsible and more profitable.

• Achieve and measure sizable improvements in
• Personnel costs and productivity
• Paperwork and supply cost reduction
• Building space and utility utilization
• Transportation costs
• Customer service levels
• Margins
• Inventory levels and turns
• IT resource utilization
• Company morale
• Carbon footprint and more

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Now also free @ B&N.