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Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer
Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the company's secret of success. What they uncovered will surprise you and change the way you think about business. Simultaneously rigidly traditional and seriously innovative, it is precisely those internal contradictions that make the company so successful and admired..
Price: $15.33
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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
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Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
With more than 2300 marks illustrated and brief histories and cross-references of more than 1600 manufacturers, this is the most comprehensive reference source on the subject To compile the information presented here, the authors devoted much time researching numerous sources. These include various editions of Trademarks of the Jewelry & Kindred Trades, U.S. Patent Office records, silver and jewelry catalogs of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, records of companies still in business, and pieces examined in antiques shops all over the country. This fifth edition includes new trademarks, additional companies, and brings to date the many changes in company ownership during the last decade..
Price: $19.70
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Outsourcing the Sales Function: The Real Costs of Field Sales
This book sheds new light on the personal selling function in business-to-business markets Well versed in the area of manufacturers' reps, the authors equip managers with the tools to determine the true costs and benefits of both in-house and outsourced forces. They explain in detail the differences between manufacturers' reps and company owned, tips for when to use them, how to most effectively work with them to optimize company return, and how to build strategic long-term alliances. The authors offer detailed information about the true costs and benefits of running a sales force and discuss how to effectively work with manufacturers' representatives to optimize your return. The book includes a CD-ROM with a cost calculator..
Price: $37.37
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Lean Manufacturing Implementation: A Complete Execution Manual for Any Size Manufacturer
The proven, objective, standardized, and complete "how to" sequential series of progressive steps to Lean manufacturing implementation illustrated in this manual are easy to understand and use to effect factory transformation to lean without the aid of a consultant. It also provides a toolbox of techniques for problem - solving, continuous improvement, and for operating a Lean manufacturing facility on a day-to-day basis after the initial line design is completed.
Price: $54.93
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The Essential Guide for Buying from China's Manufacturers: The 10 Steps to Success
The Essential Guide for Buying from China's Manufacturers is packed with practical information, advice, insights and tips for purchasing managers and buyers wanting to work successfully with Chinese companies. This book contains secrets that few people know about Chinese companies and business practices, information that will give the reader a crucial advantage over competitors. This book will save time and money, and is guaranteed to dramatically improve results in China. It includes the sources of quality problems and why quality control is crucial to success; how to successfully negotiate with the Chinese; identifying and selecting quality factories and suppliers; understanding the importance of relationships and their relevance to business in China; avoiding problems by following the fundamental rules of communication; preventing loss of 'face' while doing business in China; protecting intellectual property rights in China. Wave goodbye to problems in China forever!.
Price: $27.95
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Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers
What is Lean?Pure and simple, lean is reducing the time from customer order to manufacturing by eliminating non-value-added waste in the production stream. The ideal of a lean system is one-piece flow, because a lean manufacturer is continuously improving. Most other books on lean management focus on technical methods and offer a picture of how a lean system should look like. Other books provide snapshots of companies before and after lean was implemented. This is the first book to provide technical descriptions of successful solutions and performance improvements. It's also the first book to go beyond snapshots and includes powerful first-hand accounts of the complete process of change; its impact on the entire organization; and the rewards and benefits of becoming lean. At the heart of Becoming Lean are the stories of American manufacturers that have successfully implemented lean methods. The writers offer personalized accounts of their organization's lean transformation. You have a unique opportunity to go inside the implementation process and see what worked, what didn't, and why..
Price: $16.88
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Shotshells & Ballistics: Ballistic Data Out to 70 Yards for Shotshells from .410-, 28-,24-, 20-, 16-,12- and 10-Gauge for over 1,600 Different Loads and 22 Manufacturers
This is a practical reference that lists commercially available shotshell loads from the .410-bore to the 10-gauge, in all shot sizes available, different shot types (lead, steel, bismuth) so that the shooter can quickly find what will be best for the gun he has and the game or targets he wants to shoot. Extensive tables show shot size; weight of shot; recoil; and so on. Includes tables of every load made from 22 manufacturers..
Price: $9.70
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