280 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Race is an unusual book. Its messages can be grasped simply by looking through the graphics. It can be understood better by reading the accompanying text. It is even more deeply grasped and useful when manufacturing people at all levels discuss its implications and application to their own environment. The Race enables you to derive a superior system - Drum-Buffer-Rope - for generating continual logistical improvements. It also illustrates how to focus on the process improvements that will have the greatest impact on your competitive edge. The epilogue and appendix quizzes will give the thoughtful reader insight in how to initiate and then extend a process of ongoing improvement into other areas like marketing and financial control.

    1 Are we losing our dominant position? 2 The Drive for Quality, 3 Product Life Cycles Shrink, 4 Automating our plants, 5 Logistics to speed the flow of materials, 6 Inventory turns measure performance, 7 The race for a competitive edge is accelerating- rapidly, 8 Where to Start- sorting out the alphabet soup, 9 What is the goal of the race? 10 Making Money, 11 Is the cost bridge fatally flawed? //part contents.

    Biography

    Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Author) , Robert E. Fox (Author)