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Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization

Are you getting a true picture of your company's performance? The disturbing answer, for most senior manager and CFOs today, is no. The culprit? Current management accounting practices produce financial statements that are unnecessarily complex and confusing. As a result, most companies are run by executive who do not fully understand their own financial information.

Realistic Cost Estimating for Manufacturing, Second Edition (eBook)

This eBook contains material on the use of software, organization strategies in cost estimating, types of costs, learning curves, and much more. Topics presented include manufacturing costs, standard versus actual costs, cost in relation to product volume, analysis, types of estimates, cost estimating controls, cost requests from other departments, evaluating supplier quotes, calculating selling prices, and much more.

Simplified Systematic Planning of Manufacturing Cells

A highly-condensed, six-step version of the complete SPMC method. Includes working forms for each step and detailed illustrated examples of their use are included. This book is appropriate for planning small, simple cells. Written for leaders and members of cell planning teams. Also useful for classroom instruction.

The Lean Handbook: A Guide to the Bronze Certification Body of Knowledge

This comprehensive handbook covers all the topics included in the Lean Certification Body of Knowledge: cultural enablers, continuous process improvement, consistent lean enterprise culture, and business results. Written by a team of lean experts with years of experience in the field, it will be indispensable to anyone interested in implementing and sustaining a lean initiative. The book is written, by design, at the Bronze certification knowledge. This means that the weightings used in the BOK for the Lean Bronze Certification were considered for the depth and breadth of material considered for each rubric. By addressing the BOK at for Lean Bronze, this book provides a basic understanding of the lean principles, systems, and tools at a tactical level to drive improvements with measureable results.

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer, 2nd Edition

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.