You have been hired as a Logistics Engineering Manager by a consolidated manufacturing firm. The CEO intends that you will bring a competitive advantage to the company by integrating the concepts of total quality management, production planning and control, concurrent engineering, and the strategic approach to total manufacturing management. He has tasked you with a series of papers to introduce and reinforce these concepts with the management team. He has also tasked you with providing executive summaries, along with presenting your papers for the Board of Directors.

introducing and reinforcing the key concepts associated with supply chain interfaces and prototyping.

Write a paper of 800-1,000 words that discusses the following:
    System synthesis, analysis, and design optimization
    Logistics and supportability analysis
    Concurrent engineering and prototyping