Better business decisions using cost modeling / / Victor E. Sower, Christopher H. Sower

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464203103321
• Autore: Sower Victor E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-78539-575-0; 1-63157-068-4
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Collana: Supply and operations management collection, , 2156-8200
• Disciplina: 658.1552
• Soggetti: Costs, Industrial - Mathematical models; Electronic books.
• 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 (pages 163-164) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Constructing cost models -- 3. Internal cost models -- 4. Other internal cost models -- 5. External cost models for procured materials -- 6. External cost models for procured services -- 7. Total cost of ownership models -- 8. Probabilistic cost models -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Data sources for cost modeling -- Appendix B. Simulation software used to illustrate chapter 8 -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Information is power in supply chain operations, negotiations, continuous improvement programs, process improvement, and indeed in all aspects of managing an operation. Accurate and timely information can result in better decisions that translate into the improvement of bottomline results. The development and effective use of cost modeling as a method to understand the cost of products, services, and processes can help drive improvements in the quality and timeliness of decision making. In the supply chain community, an understanding of the actual cost structures of processes, products and services, whether with new or nonpartner suppliers, can facilitate fact-based discussions that are more likely to result in agreements that are competitively priced and with fair margins. Further, accurate cost models that are cooperatively developed between supply chain partners can form the basis for joint efforts to reduce non-value-added costs ; and provide additional focus toward operational improvement.

When the old left was young : student radicals and America's first mass student movement, 1929-1941 / / Robert Cohen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782075503321
• Autore: Cohen Robert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997
• ISBN: 1-280-45347-8; 0-19-802268-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 432 pages)
• Disciplina: 378.1981; 378.19810973
• Soggetti: Student movements - History - 20th century - United States; College students - Political activity - History - 20th century - United States; Depressions - History - 1929 - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano; 2. Cafeteria Commies; 3. Springtime of Revolt; 4. The Making of a Mass Movement; 5. Spies, Suppression, and Free Speech on Campus; 6. The Popular Front on Campus; 7. Beyond the New Deal? Egalitarian Dreams and Communist Schemes; 8. Activist Impulses; 9. From Popular Front to Unpopular Sect; Appendix. The FBI Goes to College; Abbreviations; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history. The crusade, led in large part by young Communists, was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers. The movement arose from a massive political awakening on campus, caused by the economic crisis of the 1930's, the escalating international tensions, and threat of world war wrought by fascism. At its peak, in the late 1930's, the movement mobilized at least a half ; million collegians in annual strikes against war.