当今全球的商界人士都希望实施丰田激进的管理制度用以加速业务流程，减少浪费，改进质量。但是，在各式精益管理工具、管理技巧的表象之下，丰田成功的真正根基又是什么？ 《丰田模式》诠释了丰田所采用的14项精益管理实践，正是它们驱动丰田形成了专注于质量和效率的企业文化。本书还会使你获得能够应用到所有组织、各式业务流程的极富价值的洞见。你还会了解到如何将长远的企业哲学、流程管理、人员管理以及解决问题之道恰到好处地结合起来，借此帮助你的组织转型成为精益的学习型企业。一切尽在《丰田模式》。 向世界上最伟大的制造厂商学习14项精益管理原则—— * 培育不断改进和学习的氛围 * 使顾客满意（同时消除浪费） * 从内部提拔领导人而不是从外部招聘管理者 * 从最开始便保证质量 * 教会所有员工成为解决问题的人 你的企业能够从丰田模式学到什么？ * 使业务流程提速2倍甚至3倍 * 让车间制度成为质量的保障 * 消除巨额的隐性浪费 * 让每位员工都成为质检员 四次新乡奖得主研究丰田20年，遍访丰田工厂 得以铸成里程碑般的鸿篇巨制

某跨国公司高管李奇，受命于全球金融危机后的艰难时刻，创造全新的物流与采购战略体系,他凭什么信心满怀？ 转战北美、亚太、欧洲，在全球总部、工厂、地区总部、供应商、客户等众多利益相关方之间施展合纵、连横，他仅仅是为了那一份薪水吗？ 像蜘蛛那样耐心地编织和经营着专业和职场两张网，巧妙处理各种职场肉搏、业务疑难和爱恨情仇，帷幄之间，他在密谋些什么？ 事业几近折戟沉沙，却又柳暗花明，最终取得“三大战役”的惨胜，李奇，一个典型的职业经理人，他要的到底是什么？

刘宝红所著的《采购与供应链管理：一个实践者的角度》从实践者的角度，通过分析一个个案例，讲细节、讲执行，以独立文章的形式阐述供应链管理的基本思想、理论和实践。《采购与供应链管理：一个实践者的角度》注重解决供应链实践中基本面的问题，填补了相关领域学者与实践者之间的空白。全书包含供应链管理和设计、供应商管理、从小采购到大采购、采购与供应链管理作为一个职业等内容。

Today, time is the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation. In this path-breaking book based upon ten years of research, the authors argue that the ways leading companies manage time—in production, in new product development, and in sales and distribution—represent the most powerful new sources of competitive advantage. With many detailed examples from companies that have put time-based strategies in place, such as Federal Express, Ford, Milliken, Honda, Deere, Toyota, Sun Microsystems, Wal-Mart, Citicorp, Harley-Davidson, and Mitsubishi, the authors describe exactly how reducing elapsed time can make the critical difference between success and failure. Give customers what they want when they want it, or the competition will. Time-based companies are offering greater varieties of products and services, at lower costs, and with quicker delivery times than their more pedestrian competitors. Moreover, the authors show that by refocusing their organizations on responsiveness, companies are discovering that long-held assumptions about the behavior of costs and customers are not true: Costs do not increase when lead times are reduced; they decline. Costs do not increase with greater investment in quality; they decrease. Costs do not go up when product variety is increased and response time is decreased; they go down. And contrary to a commonly held belief that customer demand would be only marginally improved by expanded product choice and better responsiveness, the authors show that the actual results have been an explosion in the demand for the product or service of a time-sensitive competitor, in most cases catapulting it into the most profitable segments of its markets. With persuasive evidence, Stalk and Hout document that time consumption, like cost, is quantifiable and therefore manageable. Today's new-generation companies recognize time as the fourth dimension of competitiveness and, as a result, operate with flexible manufacturing and rapid-response systems, and place extraordinary emphasis on R&D and innovation. Factories are close to the customers they serve. Organizations are structured to produce fast responses rather than low costs and control. Companies concentrate on reducing if not eliminating delays and using their response advantage to attract the most profitable customers. Stalk and Hout conclude that virtually all businesses can use time as a competitive weapon. In industry after industry, they illustrate the processes involved in becoming a time-based competitor and the ways managers can open and sustain a significant advantage over the competition.

利丰集团是一家以香港为基地的大型跨国商贸集团，运用供应链管理的概念经营出口贸易、经销批发和零售三大业务。本书在涵盖了哈佛商学院研究利丰业务模式的四个案例的基础上，通过对利丰集团各级管理层的大量访谈与研究，以业务案例介绍供应链管理的概念与应用。　　本书首次详细公开利丰集团的业务模式及用于培训高层管理人员经营概念的内部资料。我们相信供应链管理的概念对不同类型的产业都具有适用性和参考价值，并希望通过利丰集团的经验与内地各界人士共同探讨如何更有效地运用供应链管理来提升企业的竞争力，以迎接中国在“入世”后面临的挑战。