| Title : | Operations management | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Nigel Slack, Author ; Stuart Chambers, Author ; Robert Johnston, Author | | Edition statement: | 4th Edition | | Publisher: | Harlow : Prentice Hall Financial Times | | Publication Date: | 2004 | | Pagination: | 794p. | | Size: | 27cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-273-67906-6 | | Class number: | 658.5 | | Abstract: | An essential tool for those wanting balanced coverage of services and manufacturing operations management.
For Operations Management courses at both undergraduate and graduate level.
This book is intended to provide an introduction to operations management for all students who wish to understand the nature and activities of operations management. Providing a clear,
well-structured and interesting treatment of operations management, the text provides both a logical path through the various operations management activities as well as the fundamental understanding of their strategic context.
This book strikes an interesting balance between the strategic and operational views of operations management and between manufacturing and service industry views of operations. Nigel Slack's Operations Management is THE authoritative, managerial view of the subject.
The text outlines the importance of operations and demonstrates how crucial it is in creating the products and services upon which we all depend.
This revised and fully updated edition of Operations Management continues to provide a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject, balancing a logical approach with the insights that come from real life operations examples and practices around the world. | | Contents note: | Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Operations management
2. The strategic role and objectives of operations
3. Operations strategy
PART II: DESIGN
4. Process design
5. The design of products and services
6. Supply network design
7. Layout and flow
8. Process technology
9. Job design and work organization
PART III: PLANNING AND CONTROL
10. The nature of planning and control
11. Capacity planning and control
12. Inventory planning and control
13. Supply chain planning and control
14. Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
15. Lean operations and Just-in-time (JIT)
16. Project planning and control
17. Quality planning and control
PART IV: IMPROVEMENT
18. Operations improvement
19. Failure prevention and recovery
20. Total quality management
PART V: THE OPERATIONS CHALLENGE
21. The operations challenge
Case exercise: Oxfam
Glossary
Index |
Operations management [printed text] / Nigel Slack, Author ; Stuart Chambers, Author ; Robert Johnston, Author . - 4th Edition . - Harlow : Prentice Hall Financial Times, 2004 . - 794p. ; 27cm. ISBN : 978-0-273-67906-6 | Class number: | 658.5 | | Abstract: | An essential tool for those wanting balanced coverage of services and manufacturing operations management.
For Operations Management courses at both undergraduate and graduate level.
This book is intended to provide an introduction to operations management for all students who wish to understand the nature and activities of operations management. Providing a clear,
well-structured and interesting treatment of operations management, the text provides both a logical path through the various operations management activities as well as the fundamental understanding of their strategic context.
This book strikes an interesting balance between the strategic and operational views of operations management and between manufacturing and service industry views of operations. Nigel Slack's Operations Management is THE authoritative, managerial view of the subject.
The text outlines the importance of operations and demonstrates how crucial it is in creating the products and services upon which we all depend.
This revised and fully updated edition of Operations Management continues to provide a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject, balancing a logical approach with the insights that come from real life operations examples and practices around the world. | | Contents note: | Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Operations management
2. The strategic role and objectives of operations
3. Operations strategy
PART II: DESIGN
4. Process design
5. The design of products and services
6. Supply network design
7. Layout and flow
8. Process technology
9. Job design and work organization
PART III: PLANNING AND CONTROL
10. The nature of planning and control
11. Capacity planning and control
12. Inventory planning and control
13. Supply chain planning and control
14. Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
15. Lean operations and Just-in-time (JIT)
16. Project planning and control
17. Quality planning and control
PART IV: IMPROVEMENT
18. Operations improvement
19. Failure prevention and recovery
20. Total quality management
PART V: THE OPERATIONS CHALLENGE
21. The operations challenge
Case exercise: Oxfam
Glossary
Index |
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