Essentials of Operations Management is a brand new concise version of
the market-leading text Operations Management.
It has been developed forstudents on short courses in operations management –
for example, doing an initial course at undergraduate, postgraduate or post-experience
level. In these books the author team have set the standards in Operations Management
which other textbooks seek to emulate: Expert authorship, an engaging writing style, and
an interesting collection of cases combine to communicate the importance of managing
operations and processes within a successful organisation.
Table of Contents
1 Operations management
2 Operations strategy
3 Social, environment and economic performance
4 The design of products and services
5 Process design
6 Location, layout and flow
7 Supply network management
8 Capacity management
9 Inventory planning and control
10 Planning and control
11 Lean synchronization
12 Quality management
13 Operations improvement
Notes on chapters
Index
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