Speed-Based Target Profit (ePub)

Alin Posteuca, Ph.D, is a management consultant in profitability, productivity and quality and CEO of Exegens Management Consultants (Romania). Prior to this position, he held top management positions in manufacturing and service companies.

His major research areas include manufacturing policy deployment, manufacturing cost improvement, and profitability of operational excellence. His recent research includes the impact of Industry 4.0 on the information systems of cost and budget in order to substantially improve the operational unit costs. He has been actively involved in various industrial consulting and training projects for more than 20 years in Romania.

He has an MBA degree (University of Iasi, Romania). He received his Ph.D. in managerial accounting from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania). Also, he received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania). He is certified public accountant in Romania.

He has published in various research journals and presented papers at numerous conferences and congresses regarding productivity, manufacturing cost improvement and industrial engineering. He is the co-author of Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) and Methods Design Concept (MDC): The Path to Competitiveness (2017, Productivity Press/CRC Press, USA). Also, he is the author of Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) Transformation: Uncovering Hidden Reserves of Profitability (2018, Productivity Press/Routledge, USA) and Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) Profitability Scenarios: Systematic and Systemic Improvement of Manufacturing Costs (2019, Productivity Press/Routledge, USA).