A broad, practical introduction to operations, reinforced with an extensive collection of practice problems, Heizer is the best selling Operations Management franchise worldwide. Universally recognized as the gold-standard in Operations Management – and now enhanced with a robust MyOMLab – our goal is to remain the go-to publisher in the OM course in Canada.
Operations Management presents a broad introduction to the field of operations in a realistic and applicable manner, while offering the largest and most diverse collection of problems on the market. This text presents a state-of-the-art view of the activities of the operations function from a Canadian perspective.
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Jay Heizer
Professor Emeritus, the Jesse H. Jones Chair of Business Administration, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, Texas. He received his B.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of North Texas and his Ph.D. in Management and Statistics from Arizona State University. He was previously a member of the faculty at the University of Memphis, the University of Oklahoma, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Richmond. He has also held visiting positions at Boston University, George Mason University, the Czech Management Center, and the Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg.
Dr. Heizer’s industrial experience is extensive. He learned the practical side of operations management as a machinist apprentice at Foringer and Company, as a production planner for Westinghouse Airbrake, and at General Dynamics, where he worked in engineering administration. In addition, he has been actively involved in consulting in the OM and MIS areas for a variety of organizations, including Philip Morris, Firestone, Dixie Container Corporation, Columbia Industries, and Tenneco. He holds the CPIM certification from APICS–the Association for Operations Management.
Barry Render
Professor Emeritus, the Charles Harwood Professor of Operations Management, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics at Roosevelt University, and his M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Quantitative Analysis at the University of Cincinnati. He previously taught at George Washington University, University of New Orleans, Boston University, and George Mason University, where he held the Mason Foundation Professorship in Decision Sciences and was Chair of the Decision Sciences Department. Dr. Render has also worked in the aerospace industry for General Electric, McDonnell Douglas, and NASA.
Professor Render has co-authored 10 textbooks for Prentice Hall, including Managerial Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets, Quantitative Analysis for Management, Service Management, Introduction to Management Science, and Cases and Readings in Management Science. Quantitative Analysis for Management, now in its 11th edition, is a leading text in that discipline in the United States and globally. Dr. Render’s more than 100 articles on a variety of management topics have appeared in Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Information and Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, IIE Solutions, and Operations Management Review, among others.
Paul Griffin
Paul Griffin Associate Dean, Business Degrees, Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom and has also achieved 16 professional designations. The list of designations includes Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Certified General Accountant (CGA), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI), and several others.
Before joining academia, Dr. Griffin was engaged in the financial services sector for over 20 years and was most recently the National Director of Operations and Compliance at ING Canada. He remains an active member of several boards and committees, most notably the Insurance Institute of Canada’s Ethics Advisory Board, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario’s Advisory Board, and he serves as Chair of the Education Committee and Board of Directors for the Canadian Institute of Financial Planning. Before becoming Associate Dean at Humber, Dr. Griffin was a Professor and taught operations management, accounting, finance, and marketing. During that time, he received the Award of Excellence for Outstanding Academic Contribution.
