Operations management / Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers, Robert Johnston.
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TextPublication details: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2003.Edition: 4th edDescription: 848 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN: - 9780273679066 (pbk.) :
- 0273679066(pbk.)
- Production management
- Business and Management
- Project management
- Quality Assurance (QA) & Total Quality Management (TQM)
- Management of real estate, property & plant
- Production & quality control management
- Research & development management
- Purchasing & supply management
- Distribution & logistics management
- Business mathematics & systems
- Operational research
- 658.5 SLA
- TS155 .S53 2003
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Previous ed.: 2001.
Includes index.
1.Operations management -- 2.The strategic role and objectives of operations -- 3.Operations strategy -- 4.Design in operations management -- 5.The design of products and services -- 6.Design of the operations network -- 7.Layout and flow -- 8.Process technology -- 9.Job design and work organization -- 10.The nature of planning and control -- 11.Capacity planning and control -- 12.Inventory planning and control -- 13.Supply chain planning and control -- 14.MRP -- 15.Just-in-time planning and control -- 17.Quality planning control -- 18.Operations improvement -- 19.Failure prevention and recovery -- 20.Total quality management -- 21.The operations challenge.
This text presents both a logical path through the activities of operations management and an understanding of the strategic context in which operations managers work. It features worked examples of techniques discussed in the text.