Here’s a recommended reading list for Supply Chain and Manufacturing insight for the coming year. Make a resolution to improve your business by gaining fresh insights into “inherent simplicity” and stop pulling out your hair over complexities.
 Building Lean Supply Chains with the Theory of Constraints: Mandyam Srinivasan: 9780071771214: Books |
Theory of Constraints Handbook: James Cox III, John Schleier: 9780071665544: Books
Re-Engineering the Manufacturing System: Applying the Theory of Constraints (Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing): Robert E. Stein: 9780824742652: Books
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement: Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox: 9780884271956: Books
It's Not Luck: Eliyahu M. Goldratt: 9780884271154: Books
The Choice: Eliyahu M. Goldratt: 9780884271895: Books
Epiphanized: Integrating Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma: Bob Sproull, Bruce Nelson: 9780884272052: Books
The Ultimate Improvement Cycle: Maximizing Profits through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints: Bob Sproull: 9781420090345: Books
Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed: Integrating the System from End to End: Eli Schragenheim, H William Dettmer, J. Wayne Patterson: 9781420073355: Books
Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance (The CRC Press Series on Constraints Management): Eli Schragenheim, H William Dettmer: 9781574442939: BooksI placed these in no particular order. If you are dealing mostly with retail distribution issues, I would highly recommend starting with The Choice by Eli Goldratt.
On the other hand, if you are dealing with manufacturing issues—trying to get or remain profitable in these tough times—I would strongly suggest that you try to get a new vision of how your enterprise works by reading The Goal.
If you are an executive or in middle management and need to find new, simple, effective and low-cost ways to improve your company’s performance, then start by reading It’s Not Luck and move forward from there.
The others are excellent hands-on, how-to books that can enlighten you and give you the clues and tools you need to start your own process of ongoing improvement. So get started today. We want to see you making more money next year than you made in 2012, but its not likely you’ll see effective improvement if you continue doing the same things!
Have a blessed and wonderful New Year!
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