Proving Continuous Improvement with Profit Ability

Title: Proving Continuous Improvement with Profit Ability
Author: Russ Jones
ISBN: 0873897420 / 9780873897426
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 304
Publisher: ASQ
Year: 2008
Availability: Out of Stock

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The goal of this book is to demonstrate to manufacturing, distributor, and service businesses that there are only seven critical business elements from which continuous improvement projects can be discovered, financially evaluated, and ranked before implementation. They are to increase sales by increasing the percent of market coverage.Reduce expenses by reducing the percent of labor and non-labor expenses per sales dollar.Reduce lead times to reduce work-in-process inventory investment.Reduce setup costs to minimize product and component inventory investment.Maximize capital asset utilization percent.Minimize asset investment for invoice payment by controlling the collection period within the contracted time period.Maximize employee knowledge worker utilization by empowering them with financial and practical training related to these seven business elements.

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Chapter 1 : Double your return on Assets Percent
Chapter 2 : The Seven Critical Business Elements
Chapter 3 : Seven Projects Groups for Project Teams
Chapter 4 : Seven Project Groups you can Start Today
Chapter 5 : Project Evaluation and Project Goal setting
Chapter 6 : Empowering Employee Teams
Chapter 7 : More about Project Evaluation and Ranking
Chapter 8 : Projects to Reduce Total Expense per Sales Dollar
Chapter 9 : Projects to Reduce Lead Time adn Inventory
Chapter 10 : Projects to Reduce Setup Cost and Inventory
Chapter 11 : Rationalizing a Material Control System
Chapter 12 : Linking Continuous Improvement with ISO 9000
Chapter 13 : Projects to increase Market Share
Chapter 14 : Plotting your Economic Business Cycle
Chapter 15 : Continuous Improvement versus Creativity
Chapter 16 : Seven Sources of Entrepreneurial Innovation

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