CRC Press Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook: Inventory and Production Control

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.   Some figures in the eBook will be in color.   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 About the Author Dr. Erick C. Jones is a noted US Engineering Scientist. His fundamental theory on automated inventory control, quality control and management has impacted the fields of supply chain management, industrial manufacturing, industrial and systems engineering. He is George and Elizabeth Pickett Endowed Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Jones joined UTA in 2010 after eight years at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure. He is the George and Elizabeth Pickett Endowed Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering and served as the Deputy Director of the UT Arlington Homeland Security focused University Center SAVANT and he serves as the current Director of the (RFID & Auto-ID) RAID labs at UTA. Dr. Jones’s background led him to be invited to NSF as program officer for the largest Engineering Investment in the country, the Engineering Research Center (ERC). Also given his impact on graduate students he worked in largest fellowship program in the country NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP). Until recently, Dr. Jones has served as a rotating program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF). His programs included the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or GRFP, the Graduate Research Internship Program, and the Workforce Strand of the Education Core Research Program in the Education and Human Resources Directorate. His last NSF detail was as a Program Director for the Engineering Research Centers or ERCs, in the Engineering Directorate. Dr. Jones was one of only a few program directors to serve in two NSF Directorates. Academic background Dr. Jones graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in May 1993. He later earned a master’s degree from University of Houston, Houston, Texas where his thesis was "Turnover of Part-Time Hourly Employees in an Industrial Service Company" under the guidance of Dr. Christopher Chung in May 1996. He further went on to obtain a PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Houston while concurrently working in industry. Under the guidance of his advisor Dr. Chung he worked on the topic "A Predictive SPC Model for Determining Cognitive Voluntary Turnover before Physical Departure" and successfully conferred PhD in August 2003. Industry background Dr. Jones boasts a broad background that spans both industry and academia. Dr. Jones has held positions in industry that include In