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Foreword
The dawn of a new century brings with it the convergence of technologies,
business practices, and management principles that are creating major changes
in the way companies in most industries operate. For manufacturing compa-
nies, these changes are often taking the form of major transformations within
their enterprise and throughout the supply chains within which they operate.
The managers of these companies are faced with many major decisions about
what technologies and process changes to implement, how to implement
them, and how fast they should implement them. The primary objective of
this book is to describe a methodology for perfor ...