This handbook begins with the history of Supply Chain (SC) Engineering, it goes on to explain how the SC is connected today, and rounds out with future trends. The overall merit of the book is that it introduces a framework similar to sundial that allows an organization to determine where their company may fall on the SC Technology Scale. The book will describe those who are using more historic technologies, companies that are using current collaboration tools for connecting their SC to other global SCs, and the SCs that are moving more towards cutting edge technologies. This book will be a handbook for practitioners, a teaching resource for academics, and a guide for military contractors.

Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook: Inventory and Production Control | Erick C. Jones (Author) | CRC Press

Features:
• Presents a decision model for choosing the best Supply Chain Engineering (SCE) strategies for Service and Manufacturing Operations with respect to Industrial Engineering and Operations Research techniques.
• Offers an economic comparison model for evaluating SCE strategies for manufacturing outsourcing as opposed to keeping operations in-house.
• Demonstrates how to integrate automation techniques such as RFID into planning and distribution operations.
• Provides case studies of SC inventory reductions using automation from AIT and RFID research.
• Covers planning and scheduling, as well as transportation and SC theory and problems.

Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook: Inventory and Production Control

Table of contents
Part 1: Understanding Global Supply Chain Engineering
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Supply Chain
Chapter 2: Global Supply Chain Engineering Definitions
Chapter 3: Evaluating the Impact of Sustainability and Pipeline Quality on the Global Crude Oil Supply Chain

Part 2: Basic Knowledge for Global Supply Chain Engineering
Chapter 4: Forecasting in Global Supply Chain Engineering
Chapter 5: Inventory Control
Chapter 6: ERP Systems
Chapter 7: Logistics in Global Supply Chain Engineering

Part 3: Research Design in Global Supply Chain Engineering
Chapter 8: Analyzing Variability
Chapter 9: How Total Quality Management and Lean Six Sigma Drove Need for Supply Chain Integration
Chapter 10: A Relationship between Six Sigma and Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award
Chapter 11: Evaluating Increasing Hospital Closure Rates in U.S.: A Model Framework and Lean Six Sigma Deployment Approach for Quality Improvement Initiatives to Prevent Further Closures in Rural and Disadvantaged Locations
Chapter 12: TQM Case Study

Part 4: Technology in Global Supply Chain Engineering
Chapter 13: The Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies and the Tracking of Supply Chain Assets
Chapter 14: Evaluating the Impacts of the Internet of Things to Reduce Runway Incursions
Chapter 15: A Methodology to Evaluate Obsolete Inventory in Healthcare
Chapter 16: Manufacturing Feasibility Evaluation of RFID Chips Embedded in Artificial Organs

Part 5: New Trends in Global Supply Chain Engineering
Chapter 17: Embedding Integrated RFID Sensors into Fiber Reinforced Plastics During the Manufacturing Process
Chapter 18: Secure Documents with RFID and Potential Blockchain Implications
Chapter 19: Evaluating the Impact of Sleep Disruptions in Women through Automated Analysis
Chapter 20: Evaluating the Impact of Sustainability Incentives to Optimize the Indonesian to the United States Crude Oil Supply Chain
Chapter 21: Using Six Sigma to Evaluate Automatic Identification Technologies to Optimize Broken-Case Warehousing Operations
Chapter 22: Railroad Car Tracking by an RFID System to Organize Traffic Flow
Chapter 23: Logistics Ecosystems