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China maintains rapid economic growth and is currently the second largest economy in the world. This book focuses on opportunities that are available in the Chinese market and presents the obstacles that organizations can face, supported by data of real businesses internationalizing to China.

In the past, vertical integration was a way to gain efficiency in supply chains. Today, vertical integration doesn't work as well because specialty organizations have developed to perform specific tasks very efficiently. This book surveys the different systems that are used by businesses to achieve these efficiencies.

Address various aspects of supply chain risks. This book introduces concepts and examples of risk in supply chain management, followed by an identification and discussion of an array of quantitative tools (selection methods, risk simulation modeling, and business scorecard analysis) to manage these risks.

Shows how culture acts as the prime driver of our life - the filter of our senses and the guide of our values hence the measurement barometer upon which all our decisions and behavior is constructed. This title examines how cross cultural determinants should function as a tool in cross cultural engagement proposing a two-step concentration.

Eight in 10 people say a company's commitment to a social issue is important in deciding where to work. This title offers a toolbox of the most effective instruments for communicating social and environmental business performance. It present an integrated marketing communication perspective.

Virtually every business seeks to increase its profit from customers, but few business executives realize that a universal principle governs their customer profitability. This title applies the 80/20 rule to sales, quality control or other business functions without realizing that 80:20 ratio summarizes Pareto distribution of inputs to outputs.

Provides simple tools to help apply the Golden Rules and each chapter conclude with a summary of the key points and questions to be considered. This title is based upon detailed research on the behavior and skills of successful negotiators. It is also based upon a fictional buyer - salesperson relationship.

Executives and managers hear or read headlines about recent economic data nearly every business day. Most important economic statistics are the products of programs designed to collect and analyze data to report summary results at regular intervals. Properly interpreted, these economic indicators provide useful barometers for different aspects of the economy and identify trends that aid better planning decisions. Economic indicators are available at the national level, state level, and even the regional and municipal level. This text focuses on economic indicators for the overall U.S. economy, identifying major categories of economic indicators and describing the key indicators in each of the categories. The text will also provide guidance for interpreting indicators expressed in terms of an index (which reports values as percentage of a base period value) or in real dollar values (which remove the impact of inflation.) Most key economic indicators are reported promptly on the World Wide Web and provided as formatted time series that can be readily downloaded and analyzed. The text will include links to the sources for key economic indicators as well as websites that maintain calendars of upcoming announcements and consensus forecasts of the indicators shortly prior to a formal announcement. This book is a companion to two other Business Expert Press by the authors that address managerial economics and time series data/forecasting. Together these books will equip the manager and the student with a solid understanding of economic indicators and how to analyze them.

An introduction to the essential concepts and tools used in the "Lean" method of improving business processes; it constitutes a sufficient "toolkit" to enable a reader to successfully improve business processes in their workplace. It is applied to service and administrative processes as well.

Every business is exposed to financial risk stemming from commodity price volatility. Risk exposure may be direct from the prices paid for raw materials needed for operations or indirect from higher energy and transportation costs. This book provides an approach that organizations can implement to manage commodity price volatility.

In most companies, the purchasing department is called upon to improve quality, delivery, and service. This book gives you a step-by-step guide on how to plan a negotiation. It helps you to develop a strategy for your supplier, become a skilled negotiator, and learn more about the types of negotiation strategies.

Pricing analytics uses historical sales data with mathematical optimization to set and update prices offered through various channels in order to maximize profit. With this outstanding contribution to this subject, you will learn just how to identify and exploit pricing opportunities in different business contexts. Each chapter looks at pricing from an economist's viewpoint beginning with the basic concept of pricing analytics and what type of data are needed to use this powerful science; the common assumptions regarding the customer population's willingness- to-pay are discussed along with the price-response functions that result from these assumptions; examples from several industries and organizations; dynamic pricing, with a special emphasis on the most common application--markdown pricing; the new field of customized pricing analytics, where a firm responds to a request-for-bids or request-for-proposals with a customized price response; and the relevant aspects of behavioral science to pricing. Additional examples include the asymmetry of joy/pain that customers feel in response to price decreases/increases.

Suitable for an audience of graduate students, executive MBA students, and mid-to upper level government and corporate managers, this title examines the complexity of the types of organizations that comprise a modern supply chain, the problems that arise as a result of this complexity, and the solutions and analytical approaches available.

Offers a practical approach for understanding the US Army's complex global logistics system, acknowledged as one of the largest in the world. This book focuses on inventory management policy where prescriptions are illuminated through the prism of an enterprise supply chain analysis.

Creating or exploiting opportunities on an individual basis is not the best practice: it is much more productive (and much less risky) to participate in national Trade Promotion Programs designed and implemented with government assistance, this book helps enterprises to find new markets and trade opportunities.

Foreign firms typically engage China as a sourcing location or as a market to sell their goods. China is increasingly taking on a more prominent role in global business. This book details the history, culture, economy, marketing, sourcing, staffing, etiquette, negotiation, and daily life.

Provides an analysis of the major developments that determine the business environment of different countries in the region, including a discussion of major social and economic developments, the impact of the rise multinational companies from the Middle East, and the role played by institutions and political risk.

Explores how naturally connected organizations can survive and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world using the principles of natural connectivity, organic growth and collaboration. This book shows how naturally connected organizations are resilient through cycles of boom and bust.

Provides avenues to convert the vast amounts of data at their disposal into powerful information to make informed long-term and short-term decisions about products, customers, markets, and overall business health.