Operations Management: Policy, Practice and Performance Improvement
1st Edition
Published on 17. June 2013
436 pages
978-1-136-37546-0 (ISBN)
Description
'Operations Management: policy, practices, performance improvement' is the latest state-of-the-art approach to operations management. It provides new cutting edge input into operations management theory and practice that cannot be found in any other text.
Discussing both strategic and tactical inputs it combines and balances service and manufacturing operations.
* Cutting edge techniques accompanied by brand new case studies
* Challenges standard approaches
* Comprehensive coverage of strategic supply management
* Critical sample questions to aid discussion
* Reading lists and articles to support learning
* Additional lecturer support material
This outstanding author team is from the Operations Management Group at the University of Bath. Their expertise and knowledge is apparent in the text, and they bring to it their original research and experience in the field of operations management.
Discussing both strategic and tactical inputs it combines and balances service and manufacturing operations.
* Cutting edge techniques accompanied by brand new case studies
* Challenges standard approaches
* Comprehensive coverage of strategic supply management
* Critical sample questions to aid discussion
* Reading lists and articles to support learning
* Additional lecturer support material
This outstanding author team is from the Operations Management Group at the University of Bath. Their expertise and knowledge is apparent in the text, and they bring to it their original research and experience in the field of operations management.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
22,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-37546-0 (9781136375460)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Steve Brown | Kate Blackmon | Paul Cousins
Operations Management: Policy, Practice and Performance Improvement
Policy, practice and performance improvement
Book
06/2001
1st Edition
Butterworth-Heinemann
€123.80
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Steve Brown, Kate Blackmon, Paul Cousins, Harvey Maylor
Content
Part 1 Overview; Chapter 1 Operations Management: Content, History and Current Issues; Chapter 2 Operations Strategy: the Strategic Role of Operations; Part 2 Policy; Chapter 3 Innovation: Developing New Products and Services; Chapter 4 Operations Processes: Process Choice and Layout; Developing New Products and Services; Chapter 5 Managing Supply; Part 3 Practice; Chapter 6 Managing Capacity: Managing Transforming Resources; Chapter 7 Managing throughput: improving material, customer and information flows; Chapter 8 Project management: content, history and current issues; Part 4 Performance Improvement; Chapter 9 Managing Quality; Chapter 10 Performance Measurement and Improvement; Chapter 11 World-Class Operations; Chapter S1 Analysing Manufacturing Operations: Quantitative Methods; Chapter S2 Analysing Service Operations: Service Delivery, Queuing And Shift Scheduling;
