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Foundations of Production and Operations Management focuses on the concepts essential to a simple-quantitative understanding of strategies and tactics in the P/OM field. Using a managerial focus with the systems approach, this book clarifies the field of Production and Operations Management in its current state. The systems approach is ideal for the managerial focus because the systems approach crosses functional boundaries in search of best solutions. This line of attack has come into strong favor by industry managers. In lieu of detailed quantitative discussions, Starr has streamlined, clarified, and updated fundamental qualitative concepts of business and P/OM. This introductory text provides students with a solid managerial framework for making better decisions, developing career skills, and problem-solving to support company sustainability. The writing style encourages educational literacy. This textbook is dedicated to broad educational objectives in the belief that managers prefer to hire well-informed students. Foundations of Production and Operations Management focuses on the concepts essential to a simple-quantitative understanding of strategies and tactics in the P/OM field. Using a managerial focus with the systems approach, this book clarifies the field of Production and Operations Management in its current state. The systems approach is ideal for the managerial focus because the systems approach crosses functional boundaries in search of best solutions. This line of attack has come into strong favor by industry managers. In lieu of detailed quantitative discussions, Starr has streamlined, clarified, and updated fundamental qualitative concepts of business and P/OM. This introductory text provides students with a solid managerial framework for making better decisions, developing career skills, and problem-solving to support company sustainability. The writing style encourages educational literacy. This textbook is dedicated to broad educational objectives in the belief that managers prefer to hire well-informed students.
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Dr. Martin Starr is currently Distinguished Professor of Operations Management at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He was the Director of the Center for Enterprise Management, whose mission is to enable companies to remain competitive in the new millennium. He is Chair of the Council of Presidents of the Operations and Management Society (POMS). He has been a regular contributor to research focusing on the systems approach in production and operations management with recent emphasis on e-commerce applications. Starr received his bachelor's degree in Engineering at MIT, went on to earn masters degrees in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, and earned a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Management Science from Columbia University.
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