Books with author Thomas Bowen

The goal of this book is three-fold:1. Understand your existing inventory situation and define improvement objectives2. Simplify planning, purchasing, and stocking of spare parts, consumables, raw and bulk materials, MRO and engineering parts3. Realize savings by executing the strategy of "Classify & Cash-In"To achieve these goals, the following three questions shall be answered:1. How can your inventory be analyzed?2. How can your inventory be classified into relevant groups?3. How can you develop rules for the groups and implement them?Introducing: SWOT Analysis of inventoryPlus: ABC XYZ analysis explainedUseful concepts for supply chain, purchasing, procurement, planning, warehousing, logistics and inventory control professionals and managers are explained in a practical manner. Inventory has become a significant cost driver due to large investments made by companies. Intermittent and irregular nature of many demands complicates the balancing of stocks and their holding costs. Many expensive parts, although low in demand, are critical to operations. By an appropriate classification system, various categories are identified. Specific recommendations and procedures are suggested for each of the classified group.

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You are holding a collection of anecdotes spanning my life from a Michigander living in Louisiana to today as a Navy veteran living in Texas.You'll find stories of being chased by bullies, big snakes, and wolves, a non-trivial number of sea stories of life aboard the USS Portland (LSD-37) during the 1980s, and some swagger of my time as a newly minted veteran working his way through college.I've included dozens of pictures, including a rare one I took of the USS New Jersey off of the coast of Beirut shortly after the barracks bombing in October 1983. Former crew members of the Portland will enjoy the sea stories as will anyone with an interest in the military.

Why you should read ‘The Dinosaur that Survived’?Most people are fearful of change, especially at our workplace. But our generation is living in the middle of one of the greatest, if not the greatest era of change. Some called it the Fourth Wave, others named it the Internet of Things Revolution, yet others christened it the Rise of A.I. aka Robots! Frankly, it doesn’t really matters what you call it. Change is here. And very soon, your job and life would be changed beyond recognition by it. There’s no stopping it my dear friend, others tried and were simply swept aside. Modern soothsayers have predicted that countless professions and jobs would be rendered obsolete by these new technologies. Forget about the Chinese factory worker, Indian software engineer or even the Mexican farmboy. They are not the main threat to your job, new technologies are the threat! So what are you my dear accountant, lawyer, and perhaps doctor, going to do about it? If you think living from paycheck to paycheck is bad, wait till the day you are declared ‘obsolete’.But don’t worry, it’s not all gloom and doom. We mankind had seen it all and trust me, you too, can survive and even thrive in these turbulent new times.For a start, read ‘The Dinosaur that Survived’.It’s a parody about two fictitious dinosaurs from the last days of their world. Follow their adventure and the book would reveal simple yet profound truths on how you could face CHANGE in its eyes and survive, better still, and thrive!Inside this book, you will :•Learn to read for small signals of Change and avoid being swept away.•See the need to move with Opportunities and prosper.•Realise that you can choose Success!•And much, much more!Would you like to know more?Simply scroll up and click the BUY BUTTON now. Now read the book and show them what you are made of!

What to do when the night sets in about a campfire? Why, start the riddles, of course!Kids young and old should take to heart any list of riddles that are as engaging and at times seemingly sense-defying to take away the chills of the mountains or the open spaces of any campsite. Campfire Riddles: Volume I by Thomas R. Bora in that respect is simple, accessible, and meant to march with the idling nighttime hours of the campers.

Every reader loves a secret. Why do hearts skip a beat and pulses trip when we read the word secret? Change it to read…secret codes and we get another bump. Or better yet…secret ciphers… that adds a dash of foreign intrigue. Sure enough now, it’s spies, secret agents and moles that use secret ciphers…saboteurs and double agents…!Code Breaker is a crash, bang, hoot of an adventure coming at you at warp speed wrapped around a tender teenage romance. Sam Ryder, a high school student, discovers a coded message in an abandoned cabin in the north Maine woods. He later learns that in 1944 an escaped WWII German POW died in the same cabin. What was the German doing there? Code Breaker is about Sam ‘s attempt to unravel the German secret cipher which he hopes will lead to a fabulous treasure before the bad guys can steal it…all the while trying to establish a relationship with the heroine, Brooke Corrigan, known as the Ice Lady, before German agents, also searching for the loot, can do her in. Then he must deal with why he left Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a jump ahead of the law. Set in Yarmouth...Freeport... Casco Castle... L.L. Bean... Casco Bay and the University of Maine’s Stone House at Wolfe’s Neck. What happens on the Bowdoin College campus? Ah! Therein lies the mystery...

An adventure thriller set in Yarmouth, Maine, and the islands of Casco Bay. Ben Thomas, author of CODE BREAKER, releases this second novel. Matt Banner, on the run from the law, ends up leading a team of five divers mapping the bottom of Casco Bay outside Portland, Maine. What happens when one of the divers surfaces with a huge gold and emerald pendant? The bad guys want it and they kill a diver to find out where it and the rest of the treasure is located. On a race to clear his name Matt runs into Lee Thomas McCall from Montana. Who is she and what is her connection to the fabulous treasure? With McCall making hot tracks on his heart, they are suddenly swept up in a run for their lives.

Excerpt from Through the WheatUsk, like soft blue smoke, fell with the dying spring air and settled upon the northern French village. In the uncertain light one and two story buildings set along the crooked street showed crisply, bearing a resem blance to false teeth in an ash-old face. To young Hicks, disconsolate as he leaned against the outer wall of the French canteen, upon whose smooth white surface his body made an unseemly blot, life was worth very little.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.