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The Practical Handbook of Computerization for Distribution Managers

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  • © 1987

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  1. Colin Barrett
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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. The Computer and the Transportation/Distribution Manager

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Computer as a Management Tool

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 3-15

    3. Computers as Information Providers

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 17-21

    4. The Computer and Time Management

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 23-29

    5. Distribution Modeling Techniques

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 31-35

    6. Transportation Cost-Finding and the Computer

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 37-44

    7. Computerization of Transportation Rates—A Viewpoint

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 45-56

  3. The Computer and the Transportation User

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. The Manager and the Technician

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 59-65

    3. Demands on the Computer User

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 67-79

    4. You don’t have to be a Programmer. . .

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 81-84

    5. Be your own Computer Expert

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 85-89

    6. Keyboardphobia

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 91-98

  4. The Computer in the Organizational Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Justifying Computerization to Higher Management

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 101-105

    3. ’Selling’ Computerization in your Organization

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 107-112

    4. MIS-Management and MIS-Management

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 113-120

  5. The Start-Up Process

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Problems of Starting up

      • Colin Barrett
      Pages 123-133
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About this book

Back in 1983 I was chatting with Dick Coleman, publisher of Traffic World magazine, when he unexpectedly proposed that I write a column for the magazine on computer applications in the transportation/physical distribution industry. "But, Dick, I don't know all that much about computers," I protested. "You use one, don't you?" he asked logically. Yes, I did; I'd been running my consulting business with it for two years. But that didn't, I explained, make me an expert. "Think about it," he said. That's typical Coleman; he drops these studiedly casual ideas and just lets them lay there until you pick them up and wind up doing just what he wanted you to do all along. Sure enough, the longer I pondered the notion the more it appealed to me. OK, I wasn't a computer expert (I'm still not). But I was a computer user, in the transportation/distribution field; maybe from that perspective I might have some useful things to say to other transportation/distribution users and would-be users of computers. Thus was born the "Computer Software for Transportation" column. The first one appeared in the April 11, 1983, issue of Traffic World, and it's been a once-a-month schedule ever since. And thus, too, was ultimately born this book.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Practical Handbook of Computerization for Distribution Managers

  • Authors: Colin Barrett

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7332-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Traffic Service Corporation 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-7334-6Published: 14 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-7332-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 317

  • Topics: Operations Management, The Computer Industry, Computers and Society

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