Production and Operations Management - Softcover

Kanishka Bedi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195690877 ISBN 13: 9780195690873

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The book provides in-depth coverage of topics such as facility location planning, facility capacity and layout planning, project management, aggregate planning, work design, demand forecasting, and operations scheduling. In addition, contemporary concepts such as e-procurement and operating resource management, multiple-criteria ABC analysis, location planning of foreign facilities, and service quality measurement using the SERVQUAL instrument have also been discussed. The book contains three new chapters on service operations management, outsourcing and offshoring, and total productive maintenance. It explores issues and challenges faced by companies in inventory management, materials requirement planning, Just-in-Time (JIT), supply chain management, and operations strategies in the post-liberalization era. The book aims to provide a step-by-step approach to each topic, particularly those requiring statistical/ mathematical treatment.

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About the Author

Kanishka Bedi Assistant Professor, Universitas 21 Global, Bangalore has over a decade of teaching experience in production and operations management, and quality management. He has been a faculty member at the Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, and a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, and is active in research, executive training, and consultancy. He is the author of Quality Management (OUP).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0195690877
• ISBN 13: 9780195690873
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 752