This book covers the planning, organizing, and controlling of activities such as transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product scheduling. It is specifically designed to help learners solve the actual problems that they will encounter in today's market place. It provides the basic decision making tools and concepts used for finding cost reduction and strategic opportunities.
This book covers the planning, organizing, and controlling of activities such as transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product ...
Our new Indian original book on software engineering covers conventional as well as current methodologies of software development to explain core concepts, with a number of case studies and worked-out examples interspersed among the chapters. Current industry practices followed in development, such as computer aided software engineering, have also been included, as are important topics like ‘Widget based GUI' and ‘Windows Management System'. The book also has coverage on interdisciplinary topics in software engineering that will be useful for software professionals, such as ‘quality management', ‘project management', ‘metrics' and ‘quality standards'. Features Covers both function oriented as well as object oriented (OO) approach Emphasis on emerging areas such as ‘Web engineering’, ‘software maintenance’ and ‘component based software engineering’ A number of line diagrams and examples Case Studies on the ATM system and milk dispenser Includes multiple-choice, objective-type questions and frequently asked questions with answers.
The book also has coverage on interdisciplinary topics in software engineering that will be useful for software professionals, such as ‘quality management', ‘project management', ‘metrics' and ‘quality standards'.
Introduction to Database Management Systems is designed specifically for a single semester, namely, the first course on Database Systems. The book covers all the essential aspects of database systems, and also covers the areas of RDBMS. The book in.
The book covers all the essential aspects of database systems, and also covers the areas of RDBMS. The book in.
Do you need to explain macroeconomics in the classroom? Would your students know what a hurdle rate is?This new edition of the Longman Business English Dictionary gives students an in-depth knowledge of all the vocabulary they need to survive in today's fast-paced business environment, whether they are students of business English or people already in work. You and your students will find it easy to understand complex business terms because all definitions are written using just 2000 common words, making even the most difficult business jargon clear and easy to understand. Make sure you know the latest buzz-words - this fully revised edition is completely up-to-date. Students learn real-world business English from thousands of example sentences which are taken from authentic business English sources. Improve your students' chances of success in the BEC and BULATS exams, by introducing them to the interactive exam practice on the CD-ROM.
Make sure you know the latest buzz-words - this fully revised edition is completely up-to-date. Students learn real-world business English from thousands of example sentences which are taken from authentic business English sources.
Clouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. To successfully build upon, integrate with, or even create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, and models, as well as an understanding of the business and economic factors that result from the adoption and real-world use of cloud-based services. In Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, Thomas Erl, one of the world's top-selling IT authors, teams up with cloud computing experts and researchers to break down proven and mature cloud computing technologies and practices into a series of well-defined concepts, models, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures, all from an industry-centric and vendor-neutral point of view. In doing so, the book establishes concrete, academic coverage with a focus on structure, clarity, and well-defined building blocks for mainstream cloud computing platforms and solutions. Subsequent to technology-centric coverage, the book proceeds to establish business-centric models and metrics that allow for the financial assessment of cloud-based IT resources and their comparison to those hosted on traditional IT enterprise premises. Also provided are templates and formulas for calculating SLA-related quality-of-service values and numerous explorations of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS delivery models. With more than 260 figures, 29 architectural models, and 20 mechanisms, this indispensable guide provides a comprehensive education of cloud computing essentials that will never leave your side.
With more than 260 figures, 29 architectural models, and 20 mechanisms, this indispensable guide provides a comprehensive education of cloud computing essentials that will never leave your side.
Capital Budgeting and Investment Analysis marries theory with practice by providing numerous illustrations of real-world applications. It includes a discussion of capital budgeting's link to the corporation's strategy for creating value as well as addressing the international aspects of capital budgeting. The basic philosophy of this book is to help students develop their critical thinking skills required to assess potential investments. Topics covered include the basics of capital budgeting, the estimation of project cash flows and the project cost of capital, risk analysis in capital budgeting, and corporate strategy and its relationship to the capital-budgeting decision.
The basic philosophy of this book is to help students develop their critical thinking skills required to assess potential investments.
TOAD® Handbook, Second Edition , is the definitive, completely up-to-date guide to the newest version of TOAD, the world’s premier third-party Oracle utility. Packed with step-by-step recipes, screen snapshots, and hands-on exercises, this book brings together everything developers and DBAs need to maximize their productivity with TOAD in both administrative and development tasks. TOAD product architect Bert Scalzo and leading TOAD trainer Dan Hotka thoroughly cover every area of TOAD’s functionality, offering practical, proven solutions that can be applied immediately to leverage TOAD’s dramatically improved feature set. Comprehensive coverage includes TOAD setup and configuration Browsing databases and schemas Editing SQL and PL/SQL within TOAD Creating new databases Checking database health Performing common DBA tasks Reporting via standard and custom reports Optimizing database performance Throughout the text, the authors offer practical insights into each of TOAD’s most useful tools, from App Designer to Doc Generator, ER Diagrammer to Code Road Map. This book is the only current, comprehensive, and affordable guide to the latest version of TOAD–a must-have for any TOAD user.
There will be numerous times where you either wonder or get asked about the
relative health of your database. In other words, “Is your database okay?” While
that may seem like a highly subjective question, there are some guidelines by
which a database can be statically reviewed and rated. We say statically,
because the TOAD Database Health Check reports on those metrics at a given
point in time. It's very much like a physician's report on a person's health. The
doctor (i.e., TOAD) ...
This Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create great-looking images with Photoshop. Best-selling authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas take readers step by step through all of today's Photoshop essentials: from importing digital photos through basic color manipulation and image correction to painting, masking, using filters, and more. Hot topics like working with Camera Raw, using the improved Photomerge command (that aligns and blends layers automatically) to stitch together images, making selections using the new Quick Selection tool and Refine Edge feature, and Smart Filters are all covered. Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the topic, and more advanced users, who are looking for a handy reference, will find what they need here. In this edition, using a fresh new design and now illustrated in full color, the authors have streamlined the text by focusing on the most efficient means of accomplishing a task, rather than explaining all possible methods. By the end of the book, users will have a solid foundation for working in Photoshop CS3. Additional intermediate topics can be found in the author's follow-on book: Photoshop CS3: Visual QuickPro Guide.
(If you don't have a Photoshop icon there yet, open the Adobe Photoshop CS3
folder in the Applications folder, then drag the Adobe Photoshop CS3 application
icon into the Dock.) Open the Adobe Photoshop CS3 folder in the Applications
folder, then doubleclick the Adobe Photoshop CS3 application icon. Doubleclick
any Photoshop file icon (thumbnail). Not Seeing Enough Onscreen? If you want
to open a file quickly to make the screen more “alive” as you read through this
chapter, ...
This is the complete executive's guide to driving sustainable competitive advantage and mitigating risk in today's complex supply networks. Two of the field's leading consultants show senior managers how to apply advanced strategic sourcing to significantly improve your supply chain's efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. Drawing on their cutting-edge research, Yusen Xia and Walter L. Wallace help you go beyond mere cost-cutting and contract management to redesign and orchestrate your entire multi-tier supply chain. Wallace and Xia present powerful case studies and lessons from UPS, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Shaw Industries, and other pioneers. You'll learn how to: Bring together the multiple business disciplines whose work impacts sourcing and procurement Use strategic sourcing techniques to create a more sustainable supply chain Integrate the use of emission permits into your strategic sourcing programs Manage procurement when the cost of raw materials fluctuates widely Effectively utilize financial hedging in strategic sourcing Deepen your understanding of contemporary buyer-supplier relationships Implement strategic lead-time management Increase visibility as a way to become more demand-driven Take advantage of recent advances in e-sourcing and e-procurement More effectively manage risk and uncertainty in your supply network Make better outsourcing/insourcing decisions in global supply chains If you're a senior manager who wants to transform sourcing and procurement into a key competitive differentiator, this book will help you deliver the goods.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Ltd., also known as Foxconn, is the largest and
fastestgrowing multinational that provides joint-design, joint-development,
manufacturing, and assembly and after-sales services for global computer,
communication, and consumerelectronics (“3C”) leaders. Leveraging its
unrivalled execution and its proprietary eCMMs strategy and business model,
Hon Hai not only has a stellar track record of ten-year compound annual growth
rate around 50 percent, but ...
