July 1996 € Volume 6 € Number 7

The following table of contents lists articles in the July 1996 print edition of APICS - The Performance Advantage. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections: Departments, Features, Resources or other APICS - The Performance Advantage web pages.

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Table of Contents
Departments

  • Letter from the Publisher
  • Guest Editorial
  • APICS Business Outlook Index
  • APICS Report
  • APICS Chapter Seminars
  • APICS Online
  • Consultants Forum
  • The Customer Connection
  • Industry Events
  • Real World
  • Software Review
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    Features

    A 21st Century State of Mind
    An interview with Danile Burrus
    Technologies, tools and competition

    My Saga to Improve Production
    By Eliyahu M. Goldratt
    The story behind the Theory of Constraints


    Where Do We Stand?
    For this fifth anniversary issue of APICS -- The Performance Advantage, we've invited a handful of practitioners, consultants, academics and vendors, to offer their perspectives on the last five years, and to look ahead at what the next five years may bring.

    Why Hasn't Technology Solved Our Problems
    By Gregory A. Farley, Editor

    APICS -- The International Organization
    By Andrew D. Nicoll, CFPIM, CIRM, C.P.M.

    Can Inflation Remain Stable in the Face of Unemployment?
    By Michael K. Evans

    Tell Them a Job Well Done
    By Louis W. Joy III, CFPIM

    Making a SIGnificant Professional Difference
    By Carol A. Ptak, CFPIM, CIRM

    Back to "Best -of-Breed"
    By Philip Rhodes, CFPIM

    Customer Satisfaction -- A Strategic Issue
    By Sam Tomas, CFPIM, CIRM, C.P.M.

    The Most Valuable Resource
    By Keith Launchbury, CIRM, CFPIM

    The Rise of Finite Capacity Scheduling
    By Sam G. Taylor and Steven F. Bolander

    The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
    By Steven A. Melnyk, CPIM

    It Still Comes Down to Listening to the Customer
    By William P. Hakanson

    Tomorrow's Ideas Take Flight
    By Lance Dixon

    No-Muss, No-Fuss Solutions
    By Tom Allen

    Managing in a New Era
    By David F. Ross, CFPIM

    The Answers Are in the Questions
    By George Johnson, Don Galvin and Lou Malucci

    Shorter Lead Times, Better Business
    By Greg Diehl

    Bar Code Technology in the New Millenium
    By Sprague Ackley

    Technology's Impact on ERP Directions
    By John Layden

    Which is the Critical Resource
    By Gerhard Plenert, Ph.D., CPIM

    Reinventing Product Development
    By Jeff Miller, PE, CPIM

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