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Summary
Summary
This revised and fully up-dated edition of Operations Management continues to provide students with a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of operations management. It successfully presents both a logical path through the activities of operations management and an understanding of the strategic context in which operations managers work.The changes in this third edition make learning easier and more effective.New features: * Critical Commentaries' in all chapters - a new pedagogical feature which proposes alternative views to those discussed in the chapter;* Worked examples of techniques discussed in the text;* Coverage of ISO 14000;* Enhanced Website to include: separate lecturer and student introductions to each chapter; new, interactive MCQs; answers to casestudy and boxed feature questions from the text;* Chapters 3 Operations Strategy, 8 Process Technology, 13 Supply Chain Management and 21 The Operations Challenge are substantially revised;* Entire book in 4 colour, with more colour photographs and illustrations.Classic Features: * THE authoritative, managerial view of the subject;* Practically orientated - boxed real-life examples of operations management in act
Table of Contents
| Part 1 Introduction |
| 1 Operations management Effective operations management |
| 2 The strategic role and objectives of operations The role of operations function |
| 3 Operations strategy What is strategy? |
| Part 2 Design |
| 4 Design in operations management What is design? |
| 5 The design of products and services The competitive advantage of good design |
| 6 Design of the operations network The network perspective |
| 7 Layout and flow The layout procedure |
| 8 Process technology What is process technology? |
| 9 Job design and work organisation The design of jobs |
| Part 3 Planning and Control |
| 10 The nature of planning and control What is planning and control |
| 11 Capacity planning and control What is capacity? |
| 12 Inventory planning and control What is inventory? |
| 13 Supply chain planning and control What is supply chain planning and control? |
| 14 MRP What is MRP? |
| 15 Just-in-time planning and control What is just-in-time? |
| 16 Project planning and control What is a project? |
| 17 Quality planning and control What is quality and why is it so important? |
| Part 4 Improvement |
| 18 Operations improvement Measuring and improving performance |
| 19 Failure prevention and recovery System failure |
| 20 Total quality management The origins of TQM |
| Part 5 The Operations Challenge |
| 21 The operations challenge The strategy challenge |
