ROBERT B. HANDFIELD is Associate Professor of Purchasing and Operations Management at Michigan State University. His research interests include time-based competition, environmentally friendly manufacturing, and integrated global strategic sourcing. Handfield has spoken to various NAPM and APICS groups at the national and regional level and conducted training seminars in several major North American corporations. He visited over 100 manufacturing plants in North America and Europe in developing this book.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments The Value of Time in Supply Chain Management The Product/Value Supply Chain The Beginning of the Supply Chain: Sales Order Entry Reducing Development and Delivery Time through Better Designs The "Dark" Side of Concurrent Engineering The Supply Side of Time-based Competition Leveraging Information Technology from Time-based Competition Reducing Non-Value Added Time through Just-in-Time Manufacturing Creating a Time-based Culture in the Face of Increasing Complexity Selected Bibliography Index

ROBERT B. HANDFIELD is Associate Professor of Purchasing and Operations Management at Michigan State University. His research interests include time-based competition, environmentally friendly manufacturing, and integrated global strategic sourcing. Handfield has spoken to various NAPM and APICS groups at the national and regional level and conducted training seminars in several major North American corporations. He visited over 100 manufacturing plants in North America and Europe in developing this book.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments The Value of Time in Supply Chain Management The Product/Value Supply Chain The Beginning of the Supply Chain: Sales Order Entry Reducing Development and Delivery Time through Better Designs The "Dark" Side of Concurrent Engineering The Supply Side of Time-based Competition Leveraging Information Technology from Time-based Competition Reducing Non-Value Added Time through Just-in-Time Manufacturing Creating a Time-based Culture in the Face of Increasing Complexity Selected Bibliography Index

ROBERT B. HANDFIELD is Associate Professor of Purchasing and Operations Management at Michigan State University. His research interests include time-based competition, environmentally friendly manufacturing, and integrated global strategic sourcing. Handfield has spoken to various NAPM and APICS groups at the national and regional level and conducted training seminars in several major North American corporations. He visited over 100 manufacturing plants in North America and Europe in developing this book.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments The Value of Time in Supply Chain Management The Product/Value Supply Chain The Beginning of the Supply Chain: Sales Order Entry Reducing Development and Delivery Time through Better Designs The "Dark" Side of Concurrent Engineering The Supply Side of Time-based Competition Leveraging Information Technology from Time-based Competition Reducing Non-Value Added Time through Just-in-Time Manufacturing Creating a Time-based Culture in the Face of Increasing Complexity Selected Bibliography Index