1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910150233803321

Autore

Crocker Barry

Titolo

Inbound logistics management : storage and supply of materials for the modern supply chain / / Barry Crocker, David Jessop, Alex Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-283-73355-2

0-273-72049-X

Edizione

[Seventh edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

658.7

Soggetti

Business logistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

"First published in Great Britain as "Storage and Cntrolf of Stock" in 1962--Title page verso.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Inbound Logistics Management -- Brief contents -- Contents -- List of figures and photos -- Preface -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- The supply function -- Stores -- Responsibilities -- Organisation -- Position of stores within the purchasing and supply organisation -- Relationships with other departments -- Materials management -- Logistics -- The supply chain concept -- The British Standard guide to stock control -- Identification of materials -- Coding of materials -- Advantages of a coding system -- Code symbols -- Interpretation of codes -- Methods of coding -- Self-validating codes -- Organising a materials vocabulary -- Specification -- Bar coding -- Variety reduction -- Some widely used coding systems -- Receipt and inspection -- Advance ship notice/advance shipping notification (ASN) -- Expediting -- Receipts from suppliers -- Scrap arising -- Inspection -- Vendor quality rating -- Marshalling receipts -- Receipt of capital items -- Issue and despatch -- Authorisation of issues -- Identification of requirements -- Timing of issues -- Methods of issuing stores for internal use -- Despatch of goods outside the organisation -- Records and systems: warehouse management systems -- The scope of WMS -- Operating a typical WMS -- Voice directed picking (VDP) -- Radio frequency



identification (RFID) -- Purposes of stock records -- Electronic data interchange (EDI) -- Web-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) -- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) -- Further reading -- Materials accounting -- The value of stores in stock -- Basis of material costing -- Methods of pricing material issues -- Arrangement of stores accounts -- Provisions -- Control of stock by value -- Budgetary control -- Annual audit -- Approaches to the provision of materials: JIT/lean and agile supply -- Reasons for holding stock.

Dependent and independent demand -- Approaches taken in production organisations -- Lean and agile supply -- Differing stock control needs of construction, service and retail organisations -- The extent of stockholdings -- Ordering quantities -- Range -- Consignment stocking -- Further reading -- Stock control techniques -- Provisioning -- Approaches to control -- Visual approaches to control -- Programming deliveries -- Ordering quantities -- The need for differential control -- ABC analysis -- Classification of stock according to purpose -- Forecasting demand -- The use of probability in inventory control -- The setting of reorder levels -- The provision of safety stocks -- Simulation -- Stock checking and stocktaking -- Physical security -- Responsibility for stock -- Purposes of stocktaking -- Periodic stocktaking -- Continuous stocktaking -- Stocktaking procedure -- Treatment of discrepancies -- Obsolescence and redundancy -- Stock checking -- Storehouses and stockyards -- New stores buildings -- Large central storehouses -- Storehouses serving one factory or operating unit -- Hiring of storage accommodation -- Stockyards -- Construction of stockyards -- Stockyard facilities -- Buildings and enclosures within the stockyard -- Stores operations -- Security -- Knowledge of materials -- Prevention of deterioration -- Storehouse location systems -- Flow -- Departmental stores -- Work-in-progress stores -- Sub-stores -- Special storage facilities -- Centralisation of storage facilities -- Central stores -- The assessment of stores efficiency -- The measurement of stores efficiency -- Redundant stock -- Corporate social responsibility -- What is corporate social responsibility? -- European Directives on health and safety at work -- Manual lifting -- The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations -- Mechanical lifting.

Human factors in accident prevention -- Fire precautions -- Further reading -- Storage equipment -- Adjustable steel shelving -- Bins -- Pallets -- Racks -- Portable receptacles -- Measuring equipment -- Ladders and steps -- Cleaning equipment -- General tools -- Live storage -- Automation of warehouse work -- Materials handling -- Benefits of proper materials handling -- Manual handling -- Mechanical handling -- Assessment of handling problems for mechanisation -- Hand-operated equipment -- Power-driven equipment -- The relationship of materials handling to transport -- Procedures manuals -- The need for procedures manuals -- Procedures -- Advantages and disadvantages of a manual -- Preparation of the manual -- Contents of the manual -- Publication and distribution -- Implementation of the manual -- Work study -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This well-established text provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the practice and supporting systems relating to the storage and supply of materials, from elementary principles and simplest methods to the most advanced automated operations. It is an invaluable guide to inbound logistics for both students and practitioners.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780643803321

Autore

Wagner Andreas <1967 Jan. 26->

Titolo

Paradoxical life [[electronic resource] ] : meaning, matter, and the power of human choice / / Andreas Wagner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35160-5

9786612351600

0-300-15637-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

570.1

Soggetti

Biology - Philosophy

Paradox

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Inner Dialogue of Creation -- Chapter 2. The Other Side of Self -- Chapter 3. Wholey Parts and Partly Wholes -- Chapter 4. Risky Refuges -- Chapter 5. Destructive Creation -- Chapter 6. Choice in the Fabric of Chance and Necessity -- Chapter 7. Purposeful Openness -- Chapter 8. Choice and the Natural Sciences -- Chapter 9. The Limits to Knowledge -- Chapter 10. The Power and Burden of Freedom -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide, or die. Andreas Wagner's ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge.Though we tend to think of concepts in such mutually exclusive pairs as mind-matter, self-other, and nature-nurture, Wagner argues that these opposing ideas are not actually separate. Indeed, they are as inextricably connected as the two sides of a coin. Through a tour of modern



biological marvels, Wagner illustrates how this paradoxical tension has a profound effect on the way we define the world around us. Paradoxical Life is thus not only a unique account of modern biology. It ultimately serves a radical-and optimistic-outlook for humans and the world we help create.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792975903321

Titolo

Ageing management for nuclear power plants : international generic ageing lessons learned (IGALL) / / International Atomic Energy Agency

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vienna, [Austria] : , : International Atomic Energy Agency, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

92-0-118319-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Safety Reports Series, , 1020-6450 ; ; Number 82

Disciplina

621.4835

Soggetti

Nuclear power plants - Safety measures

Nuclear power plants - Maintenance and repair

Nuclear power plants - Reliability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973109103321

Autore

Plotinus

Titolo

Ennead IV.8 : on the descent of the soul into bodies / / Plotinus ; translation with an introduction and commentary, Barrie Fleet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Las Vegas, : Parmenides Pub., 2012

ISBN

9781930972780

1930972784

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Enneads of Plotinus

Altri autori (Persone)

FleetBarrie

Disciplina

186/.4

Soggetti

Mind and body

Soul

Neoplatonism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction to the Series""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction to the Treatise""; ""Note on the Text ""; ""Synopsis""; ""Translation of Plotinus Ennead IV.8 [6]""; ""Chapter 1 Commentary ""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index of Ancient Authors""; ""Index of Names and Subjects""

Sommario/riassunto

SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL OFFER Parmenides Publishing is excited to announce this, the first volume in their new series; The Enneads Of Plotinus With Philosophical Commentaries. To celebrate this special occasion, we are offering a 25% Discount on all orders of Ennead IV.8 via the Gazelle website. This offer is valid for two months following publication. Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many noble things about the soul and its arrival here, so that we can hope for some clarity from him. So what does the philosopher say? It is clear that he does not always speak with sufficient consistency for us to make out his intentions with any ease. The issue in this treatise is one that has puzzled students of Plato from ancient to modern times -- and is indeed a popular topic for



undergraduate essays even today: Why should the philosopher, who has ascended through a long and painful process of dialectic to assimilation to the divine, ever descend back into the body?Plotinus himself is said by Porphyry to have attained such a state of other-worldly transcendence on at least four occasions during his lifetime, so this was a very real and personal issue for him. In this treatise we see him grappling with it.