Leading Manufacturing Excellence: A Guide to State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Cloth
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PATRICIA E. MOODY is a management consultant and educator with more than 20 years' experience. The editor of Target magazine, published by the AME, she is the author of Strategic Manufacturing and Breakthrough Partnering (Wiley).

The National Association of Manufacturers is the nation's largest broad-based industrial trade association. Its 14,000 member companies and subsidiaries, including more than 10,000 small manufacturers, are located in every state and produce roughly 85 percent of U.S. manufactured goods. Through its member companies and affiliated associations, the NAM represents every industrial sector, 185,000 businesses, and more than 18 million employees. The NAM is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has regional offices across the country. For more information on the NAM, call David W. Walker, Assistant Vice President, Marketing and Member Services, at (202) 637-3186.

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Partial table of contents:

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.

From Lowell to Sunnyvale: Manufacturing in the United States (R. Everdell).

THE STRATEGIC MANUFACTURING PLANNING PROCESS.

Strategic Analysis for Global Manufacturing (L. Sprague).

Sales and Operations Planning: Top Management's Handle on the Business (T. Wallace).

NEW STRATEGIES.

People Development and the Transformation to Teams (B. Oliver).

Human Resource Management Strategy (R. McInturff).

Production Planning Simplicity (M. Smith).

Profitable Purchasing (M. Harding).

MANAGEMENT FOCUS.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Manufacturing (R. Schmenner).

Next-Generation Manufacturing and the Extended Enterprise (P. Moody).

DYNAMICS OF CHANGE.

Managers as Change Agents (D. Ciampa).

About the Authors.

Index.
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