Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core (Book Only) (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences)

The third edition of Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core focuses on the important “core” concepts in the dynamic field of operations. Just as lava flows from the core of the earth, operations and supply chain management is the core of business. Material must flow through supply chain processes to create cash output and input. This new edition has an increased focus on supply chain analytics involving the analysis of data to better solve business problems.

F. Robert Jacobs is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, in Bloomington.  With over 30 years of consulting and academic exerience, he is the author of popular textbooks, has published in the top journals, and taught at all level at the university.  He is the past president of the Decision Sciences Institute, and has served on the board of directors of APICS - The Association for Operations Management.