Author: Charles C. Poirier
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: chain, supply, improve, models, using
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2003-08-26
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 157444347X
ISBN-13: 9781574443479

Around the world, virtually every company is engaged in some form of effort intended to improve the processing that takes place across an end-to-end supply chain system as they work towards moving their organizations to the next level of performance. Supply chain, particularly when enhanced with collaboration and Internet technology, is uniquely suited to helping an organization increase profits and decrease costs. A comprehensive guide to adding value to supply chain efforts, Using Models to Improve the Supply Chain demonstrates how leading firms have successfully integrated their supply chai

Author: Charles C. Poirier; Ian Walker
Publisher: J. Ross Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: value, managed, enterprise, creating, applied, process, management, business
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-07-15
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1932159339
ISBN-13: 9781932159332

Acquire the roadmap for achieving success that relates specific process improvements to bottom-line profit growth. Business Process Management Applied: Creating the Value Managed Enterprise illustrates how process improvement can add value for firms of any size in any industry and the method for tracking those savings to financial statements, using a proven maturity model and a SCOR model. It features a guiding framework and a presentation of the underlying architecture, including the basic elements of optimizing the extended enterprise, applying business process management (BPM) tools and te

Authors:Charles C Poirier, Stephen E Reiter,
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Keywords: total, business, network, strongest, building, chain, optimization, supply
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1881052931
ISBN-13: 9781881052937

Supply Chain Optimization illustrates how companies that create, distribute, and sell products or services can join forces to establish a supply network with an unbeatable competitive advantage. Poirier and Reiter explain how companies can successfully employ partnering, rather than working on improvements in isolation, to identify high opportunity initiatives across a total supply network. By applying key resources on focused opportunities and sharing the resulting savings, members of the network get larger results, faster, as well as funding for future efforts. Supply Chain Optimi

Author: Charles C. Poirier & Duncan McCollum
Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
Keywords: roadmap, success, practical, roi, strategic, implementation, rfid
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-03-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1932159479
ISBN-13: 9781932159479

With Wal-Mart, the US Department of Defense and other large organizations putting their collective endorsement on the benefits of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), their suppliers are challenged to find real business value in compliance and adoption of RFID. This book helps readers comprehend the basics of RFID, the fundamental technology and components, the various applications, business issues and potential benefits. It then presents a clear roadmap for RFID implementation and successful adoption by manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Key Features: • Shows where RFID technolog

Author: Dale J. Poirier
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: approach, comparative, econometrics, statistics, intermediate
Number of Pages: 731
Published: 1995-03-10
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0262161494
ISBN-13: 9780262161497

The standard introductory texts to mathematical statistics leave the Bayesian approach to be taught later in advanced topics courses - giving students the impression that Bayesian statistics provide but a few techniques appropriate in only special circumstances. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues Dale Poirier, who has developed a course for teaching comparatively both the classical and the Bayesian approaches to econometrics. Poirier’s text provides a thoroughly modern, self-contained, comprehensive, and accessible treatment of the probability and statistical foundations of

Author: Judes Poirier
Publisher: Humana Pre
Keywords: neuromethods, protocols, techniques, apoptosis
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $109.50
ISBN-10: 0896034518
ISBN-13: 9780896034518

Verdun, Canada. Serves as an introduction to the basic ideas of apoptosis and necrosis, as well as a reference on the significant methodologies in the field. For students and professionals. 37 contributors, 16 U.S.

Author: Richard Poirier
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: knowing, work, frost, robert
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 1990-04-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0804717419
ISBN-13: 9780804717410

The work of American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) aspired to be accessible and colloquial. Instead of looking to Europe for inspiration, as did some of his contemoraries, Frost aimed to develop an authentic voice, with the rhythms and vocabulary of everyday American speech.