TRANSPORTATION: A SUPPLY CHAIN PERSPECTIVE, 9E equips you with a solid understanding of what is arguably the most critical and complex component of global supply chains. You learn the fundamental role and importance of transportation in companies and society as you study the complex environment of transportation service. The authors provide an overview of the operating and service characteristics, cost structure, and challenges providers of transportation face. This edition highlights critica...

Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition introduces Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies. From fundamental concepts to integrated planning and control in pull production and the supply chain, the text provides a complete introduction to Lean production. Coverage includes small batch production, setup reduction, pull production, preventive maint...

Exploring research methods in the context of early childhood, this popular guide approaches complex ideas in a clear style linking directly to practice. It covers all students need to know about undertaking research in early childhood, including action research, ethics and carrying out a research project.

This concise and practical guide explores the use of Conversation Analysis as a method for conducting research in a business and management Masters dissertation.

With lots of illustrations and interviews with key urban analysts, this book offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics.

This new edition introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills in nursing. By providing a simple to read overview of the central topics students are able to quickly gain a solid, evidence-based grounding in the subject.

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Integrated Business Planning (IBP), building on practitioner's experience and showcasing the value gains when moving from disconnected planning to IBP. It also proposes a road map for the transformation of planning, including technological initiatives, business priorities and organizational processes, and demonstrates how to motivate different IBP stakeholders to work together, when and how to connect strategic (to be understood as long term ...

Wanneer kan de rechter besluiten af te wijken van de wettelijke voorschriften? Soms is een individuele situatie immers zo uniek, dat de toepassing van het geldende recht onbillijk zou zijn. De rechter kan in die gevallen een billijkheidsuitzondering maken. Dit proefschrift buigt zich over het buiten toepassing laten van de wet in bijzondere gevallen. Stel: een Libanonveteraan met een posttraumatische stressstoornis krijgt # 25.000 aan ereschuld van de overheid. De gemeente trekt daarop zijn ...

In dit nieuwe boek zijn alleen de evenhoevigen welkom. Evenhoevigen: dat zijn dieren met twee of vier tenen, zoals de dikdik, de Kaapse buffel en de giraffe die hebben. Helaas wordt de tapir en de zebra daarom de toegang geweigerd.

Bibi Dumon Tak bedient zich van een nieuw genre om haar kennis met de lezer te delen. Ze schrijft in deze bundel niet langer de waarheid in verhalen, maar de waarheid in gedichten. En Annemarie van Haeringen maakte er prachtige illustraties bij die ervoor zorgen ...