Overview

There is no better book than Operations Now: Profitability, Processes, Performance to motivate your students to learn about operations management and how and why it is critical to success in business. The Second Edition retains its cutting-edge content and unique Resource/Profit Model, a conceptual framework that places operations management in a context of business financial performance.Through the use of a framework that serves as an organizing model for the text and as an Internet portal to state-of-the-art learning resources, including interactive models, business tours, spreadsheet tutors, and other hands-on experiences, Operations Now is unmatched at meeting the learning needs of virtually any student. By using the text to do what it can do best, and by using the Internet to do what it can do best, Operations Now enables students to learn operations management concepts and techniques in the context in which they exist in the real world.

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Author:   Byron Finch
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Professional
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 28.10cm
Weight:   1.674kg
ISBN:  

9780073129174

ISBN 10:   0073129178
Pages:   736
Publication Date:   16 February 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780073297057
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Language:   English

Table of Contents

Preface AcknowledgmentsUNIT ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR SUCCESSCHAPTER ONE Introduction to Operations ManagementCHAPTER TWO ProfitabilityCHAPTER THREE Value, Strategy, and CapabilitiesCHAPTER FOUR Process Selection, Design, and ImprovementUNIT TWO: COMPONENTS OF VALUECHAPTER FIVE CostCHAPTER SIX QualityCHAPTER SEVEN Quality ToolsCHAPTER EIGHT TimelinessUNIT THREE: MANAGING OPERATIONS RESOURCESCHAPTER NINE Resource PlanningCHAPTER TEN Supply Chain ManagementCHAPTER ELEVEN InventoryCHAPTER TWELVE Lean SystemsCHAPTER THIRTEEN CapacityCHAPTER FOURTEEN Constraint ManagementCHAPTER FIFTEEN FacilitiesCHAPTER SIXTEEN WorkforceAPPENDIX A Areas of the Standard Normal DistributionAPPENDIX B Areas of the Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution GLOSSARY

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Professor of Operations Management in the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He earned his BS and MS degrees from Iowa State University and received his doctorate from the William Terry College of Business Administration at the University of Georgia in 1986. He began teaching and research responsibilities in 1987 at Miami University, where he has taught operations management and supply chain management courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels

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