Guide to `operations in practice' examples and short cases |
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Making the most of this book and MyOMLab |
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Preface |
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To the Instructor... |
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To the Student... |
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Ten steps to getting a better grade in operations management |
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About the authors |
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Acknowledgements |
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Chapter 1 Operations management |
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What is operations management? |
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Operations management is important in all types of organization |
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The input-transformation-output process |
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Operations processes have different characteristics |
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The activities of operations management |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 2 Operations strategy |
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What is strategy and what is operations strategy? |
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The `top-down' and `bottom-up' perspectives |
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The market requirements and operations resources perspectives |
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The process of operations strategy |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 3 Social, environmental and economic performance |
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Operations performance is vital for any organization |
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The five operations performance objectives |
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Trade-offs between performance objectives |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 4 The design of services and products |
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Why is good design so important? |
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The stages of design - from concept to specification |
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The benefits of interactive design |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Process types - the volume-variety effect on process design |
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Human implications for process design |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 6 Location, layout and flow |
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The location of operations |
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What is layout and what are the types used in operations? |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 7 Supply network management |
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The supply network perspective |
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Designing and managing supply networks |
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Types of relationships in supply networks |
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148 | (7) |
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Improving supply networks |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 8 Capacity management |
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What is capacity management? |
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Measuring demand and capacity |
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The alternative capacity plans |
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Choosing a capacity management approach |
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Capacity planning as a queuing problem |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 9 Inventory management |
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Why is inventory necessary? |
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The volume decision - how much to order |
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The timing decision - when to place an order |
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Inventory analysis and control systems |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 10 Planning and control |
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What is planning and control? |
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Supply and demand effects on planning and control |
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Planning and control activities |
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 11 Lean synchronization |
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246 | (21) |
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What is lean synchronization? |
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248 | (4) |
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Lean synchronization applied throughout the supply network |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 12 Quality management |
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267 | (22) |
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What is quality and why is it so important? |
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Diagnosing quality problems |
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Conformance to specification |
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Total quality management (TQM) |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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Chapter 13 Operations improvement |
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Why improvement is so important |
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291 | (1) |
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Approaches to improvement |
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304 | (11) |
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Summary answers to key questions |
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312 | (1) |
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Notes on chapters |
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Index |
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