APICS - The Performance Advantage

January 1998
Volume 8 • Number 1


The following table of contents lists articles in the print edition of APICS —The Performance Advantage. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections: Departments, Features and Resources.

Departments

  • Letter from the Editor
  • President's Message
  • Real World
  • Industry Events
  • APICS Business Outlook Index
  • APICS Report
  • APICS Chapter Seminars
  • APICS '97 International
    Conference & Exhibition
  • Dear APICS
  • Software Review:
    MATHANSR and SPEEFEED
  • Solutions
  • Leveraging Logistics
  • APICS Online
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Back to Basics
  • Policies and Procedures
  • The Customer Connection
  • Consultants Forum
  • Developmental Decision-making
  • Lessons Learned

  • Classified/Professional Services - click here to find out how to advertise in our next issue's classified/professional services section.

    Features
    Understanding Supply Chain Optimization:
    From "What If" to What's Best
    By Jerry Bendiner, M.Sc.
    Getting a handle on the mathematics and processes that drive supply chain optimization software.

    Order Management Via Advanced Planning Systems
    By K. Cyrus Hadavi, Ph.D.
    Simultaneously performing scheduling and sequencing of resources and materials with advanced planning systems.

    Charting the Course to Successful Supply Chain Management
    By Mary Lou Fox
    Migrating through the development of supply chain management � from beginning fundamentals to synchronized supply chain communities.

    Selling the Benefits of Vendor Managed Inventory Systems
    By Pete Devenyi
    How to communicate VMI�s benefits to retailers, as well as implement a successful VMI program.

    A Total Business System Approach to the Supply Chain
    By Steven Phillips, CPIM
    When business as usual becomes a way of life, senior management is left wondering why change is so difficult.

    Successful Installation and Implementation
    of Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software
    By Bob Cook, CPIM
    Going �customized� is not the only software option available for many firms; getting your software �off-the-shelf� also has its merits.

    Resources

    1998 APICS Board of Directors

    1998 Economic Forecast
    Michael Evans, APICS� consulting economist, offers his take on the state of the economy for 1998.


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