Brian Lawrence – författare

Uncertainty, Disruption and Resilience explores how companies implemented various plans of action to respond to the Bangkok floods in 2011. Aimed at students on supply chain management courses, this case study demonstrates how operations management can be more adequately prepared to deal with supply chain risks and can protect its operations, staff and resources by detailing how process continuity plans can step in and respond to disruptions to supply chain.Uncertainty, Disruption and Resilience illustrates how vulnerable global supply chains can be to catastrophic events, and how this affects global operations of companies across industries. Readers are also provided with a clear indication of how far reaching poor planned supply chains can be on overall operations and performance.Register for a Kogan Page account at check-out to access and download your PDF after purchasing. You''ll also have an opportunity to sign up when receiving your purchase confirmation email.

Jewellery Design and Manufacture Operations explains business process redesign (BPR) and provides examples of how it can reorganize activities. Aimed at students on manufacturing, supply chain, operations management and logistics courses, this case study analyses how factors at each stage of the production chain play a fundamental role in the end result of a product and determine delivery times. In Jewellery Design and Manufacture Operations Brian Lawrence also examines methods of data collection and investigates a step-by-step method of mapping the process. Readers are also provided with a series of questions to test their understanding of BPR along with guidance answers.Register for a Kogan Page account at check-out to access and download your PDF after purchasing. You''ll also have an opportunity to sign up when receiving your purchase confirmation email.

Delays Entering a Container Port provides a fascinating comparison of three alternative scenarios which have been proposed for port management companies trying to resolve the bottleneck problem. The author also suggests the most suitable and offers essential guidance of best practice which will help students and practitioners working or studying in this field. Aimed at students on logistics and operations management courses, Delays Entering a Container Port demonstrates how service speed is a fundamental factor for operations in container terminals. It explains entry gate imports and entry gate exports and gives step-by-step guidance to a vital simulation technique used to construct a queuing model. The reader is presented with essential questions about useful alternatives for improvement, and with indispensable and innovative solutions which will improve business practices.Register for a Kogan Page account at check-out to access and download your PDF after purchasing. You''ll also have an opportunity to sign up when receiving your purchase confirmation email.

This real-life case study analyses how information supply chains are critical in the running of day to day operations of a bank corporation. It explores how a hasty decision to close a local branch department designed to aid staff on the ground to deal with the head office IT experts was later reversed. It had caused major communication issues, as well as delays and duplication of administrative work, thus affecting various levels of the information supply chain. A major bank in Eastern Europe, Altberg Bank, recently merged with another big bank in Western Europe, Zollern bank. Banking has become a very competitive business, nationally and internationally. Bank charges, service offerings and budgets have to take this into account. Employees are expensive, with their salaries, office accommodation and other related costs. Banks do not have expensive machinery, raw materials or stock inventory, but they do have expensive employees tending to IT systems and equipment. When required to contain costs, or maximizing financial results from a merger, any top management would look closely at what could be pared down. Aimed at students on supply chain and operations management courses, the case presents cost-benefit analysis, the interdependence of seemingly separate operations and the importance of information management. This case study examines a fast changing fiercely competitive world where management is always under pressure to make decisions to improve financial performance. Readers are provided with insights into internal supply chains of communication and decision making. Readers are also able to develop an understanding of how and why security is a vital element in the running of IT systems in any financial institution.