Operations Management: Process and Value Chains (8th Edition)

Lee J. Krajewski

ISBN 10: 013187294X / ISBN 13: 9780131872943

Published by Prentice Hall Professional Tec (edition 8th edition), 2006

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Operations Management: Process and Value Chains (8th Edition)
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Tec (edition 8th edition)
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013187294X
• ISBN 13: 9780131872943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 8th edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Instructors Edition. This book blends the latest in strategic OM issues with proven analytic techniques. While maintaining its perspective on the big picture and the strategic importance of operations, this edition shifts its overall approach to a process orientation–both service and manufacturing. Industrial Engineers and Production and Operations Managers.

From the Back Cover

This highly respected book presents strategic and managerial issues in order to emphasize that the decisions made by operations managers should be consistent with a corporate strategy shared by managers in all functional areas. It presents the operations tools and techniques for solving problems in the context of achieving a firm's overall goals and strategies, and provides a balanced treatment of manufacturing and services throughout. The book blends the latest in strategic issues with proven analytic techniques, and offers a wealth of interesting examples to engage readers and bring Operations Management to life. This sixth addition adds an increased emphasis on processes, to provide linkage between operational issues, as well as new problem-solving software and a website with innovative Internet resources. Other coverage includes operations as a competitive weapon, operations strategy, managing technology, total quality management, statistical process control, capacity, location, layout, supply-chain management, forecasting, inventory management, aggregate planning, resource planning, lean systems, and scheduling. For operations managers in a variety of fields.