Stevenson's Operations Management features integrated, up-to-date coverage of current topics and industry trends, while preserving the core concepts that have made the text the market leader in this course for over a decade.
This quick-reference guide explains how to: Improve your production processes Boost quality using the Six Sigma approach Manage supply chains and inventory Forecast, plan, and schedule efficiently With Manager’s Guide to Operations ...
Operations Management 101 find out how to represent processes in a diagram and get the lowdown on the operations management vocabulary used to measure those processes It's a risky business discover the risks that may threaten your ...
This accurate book will give prospective hotel managers insight into all of the procedures effective managers use to ensure their hotel's--and their own--success.
There is one area where OM is increasingly engaged with its sociopolitical context: the study of responses to the existential concerns triggered by climate change and other environmental degradation (Angell and Klassen 1999; ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the past 35 years suggest that some individual service industries ( such as communications , utilities or wholesale trade ) can sustain rates of productivity growth as high as those in manufacturing ...
The book demonstrates the skills needed to be a successful operations manager and gives an understanding of qualitative and quantitative operations management processes.
In a statement,Whirlpool Chairman and CEO David R. Whitwam said that shipping delays,“most of which are already behind us,are due as much ... Brennan said that he's been steering customers who don't want the long wait to other brands.
Slack, N. (1991) Manufacturing Advantage: Achieving Competitive Manufacturing Operations, Mercury. • Slack, N. and Lewis, M. (2008) Operations Strategy, 2nd edn, Pearson Education Ltd. • Slack, N., Chambers, S. and Johnston, ...
Strategic Operations Management, 4th Edition, shows how vital it is to have world-class operations management in any organisation. This new edition pays equal attention to manufacturing and service sectors.