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Operations Management Nigel Slack

Operations Management By Nigel Slack

Operations Management by Nigel Slack


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Operations Management Summary

Operations Management by Nigel Slack

Were you looking for the book with access to MyOMLab? This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MyOMLab. Buy Operations Management with MyOMLab access card 7e (ISBN 9780273776291) if you need access to the MyLab as well, and save money on this brilliant resource.

Operations management is important, exciting, challenging ... and everywhere you

look!

* Important, because it enables organisations to provide services and products

that we all need

* Exciting, because it is central to constant changes in customer preference,

networks of supply and demand, and developments in technology

* Challenging, because solutions must be must be financially sound, resource-

efficient, as well as environmentally and socially responsible

* And everywhere, because in our daily lives, whether at work or at home, we all

experience and manage processes and operations.

'Operations Management' focuses on the sustainable and socially responsible imperatives

of operations management, using over 120 cases and illustrations of real-life operations

around the world, including Apple, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Amazon, Ecover,

Dyson, Disneyland Paris, Google, The North Face, and many more.

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Table of Contents

Brief contents

Guide to 'operations in practice', examples, short cases and case studies

Making the most of this book and MyOMLab

Preface

To the Instructor

To the Student

Ten steps to getting a better grade in operations management

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Part One INTRODUCTION

1 Operations management

2 Operations performance

3 Operations strategy

Part Two DESIGN

4 Process design

5 Innovation and design in services and products

6 Supply network design

Supplement to Chapter 6 - Forecasting

7 Layout and flow

8 Process technology

9 People, jobs and organization

Supplement to Chapter 9 - Work study

Part Three DELIVER - PLANNING AND CONTROL

10 The nature of planning and control

11 Capacity management

Supplement to Chapter 11 - Analytical queuing models

12 Inventory planning and control

13 Supply chain management

14 Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

Supplement to Chapter 14 - Materials requirements planning (MRP)

15 Lean synchronization

16 Project management

17 Quality management

Supplement to Chapter 17 - Statistical process control (SPC)

Part Four IMPROVEMENT

18 Operations improvement

19 Risk management

20 Organizing for improvement

Part Five CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

21 Operations and corporate social responsibility (CSR)

Notes on chapters

Glossary

Index

Additional information

GOR005833364
9780273776208
0273776207
Operations Management by Nigel Slack
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
2013-06-13
768
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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