About the Author |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Content |
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A Guide for Students |
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Online Resources |
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Lecturer Resources |
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New for the Third Edition |
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What is operations management? |
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The history of operations management |
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The role of operations management |
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The process view of operations |
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Service operations management |
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The strategic role of operations |
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Technology and operations management |
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1.2 Manufacturing's Decline Partly Due to Services Shift |
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1.3 A Student's Perspective |
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Chapter 2 Operations Strategy |
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Judging the contribution of operations to strategy |
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Measuring the contribution of operations to strategy |
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Operations strategy approaches |
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Operations strategy alignment |
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Operations strategy formulation |
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Operations strategy implementation |
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2.3 Operations Strategy in Action |
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35 | (14) |
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49 | (4) |
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Manufacturing process types |
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Matching process type with volume and variety |
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3.2 Democracy Made with Personalised Products |
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66 | (2) |
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Chapter 4 Layout Types and Layout Design |
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72 | (8) |
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4.1 Line Balancing in a Manufacturing Plant |
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91 | (5) |
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Chapter 5 Facility Design: Supply, Capacity and Location |
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Long-term capacity planning |
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Location selection techniques |
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5.1 IoD Advocates Space Hub to Lift Economy |
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5.2 The Supply Chains that Could Bind Unsuspecting Managers |
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5.3 Moving Textile Manufacturing Overseas |
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5.4 Mom-and-Pop Companies Face Struggle for Survival |
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Chapter 6 Process Technology |
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Process technology for materials |
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Process technology for information |
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Process technology for customers |
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Choosing process technology |
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6.1 Spencer Davis Engineering |
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6.3 Retail Applications of Transaction Processing Systems by Sainsbury's |
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6.4 RFID American Apparel |
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Chapter 7 Product and Service Design |
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Developing product and service designs |
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The relationship between product/service design and process design |
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7.1 Product Development at Fracino |
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8.1 Why the Bunker Mentality has become a Corporate Liability |
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8.2 Designing a Custody-of-Prisoner Process at a Police Force |
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Chapter 9 Job and Work Design |
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Behavioural aspects of job design |
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Physical aspects of job design |
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9.2 Keep up Motivation Levels through Long Summer Days |
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9.3 Design Space: A more ergonomic earphone |
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201 | (8) |
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210 | (5) |
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Chapter 10 Operations Planning and Control |
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Optimized production technology (OPT) |
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10.1 Workforce Scheduling at a Police Communications Centre |
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10.3 Using Workforce Scheduling to Lower Labour Costs |
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Chapter 11 Capacity Management |
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Reconciling capacity and demand |
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Evaluating alternatives and making a choice |
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11.1 Lloyds Cameras Cut Time in Queues |
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269 | (5) |
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Chapter 12 Inventory Management |
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The ABC inventory classification system |
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Implementing inventory systems |
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12.1 Pandora: Box is wide open |
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12.2 Retail: Knowing your stock is the key to a busy shop |
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Chapter 13 Lean Operations |
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The philosophy of lean operations |
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302 | (10) |
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Implementing lean operations |
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13.1 Quake Upsets Lean Supply Model |
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13.3 Goodwin Steel Castings |
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13.4 How Much Waste is there in the Service Industry? |
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13.5 It Pays to Cut Out Waste but Not to Trim All the Value Away |
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317 | (3) |
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Chapter 14 Enterprise Resource Planning |
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320 | (21) |
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321 | (1) |
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems |
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems |
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326 | (1) |
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Materials requirements planning |
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329 | (5) |
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Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) |
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Distribution requirements planning (DRP) |
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14.1 ERP: A convincing case must be made before investment |
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14.2 The Challenge of Changing Everything at Once |
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14.3 Lambton Clothing Co. |
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Chapter 15 Supply Chain Management |
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Activities in the supply chain |
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15.1 BASF and Aker Kvaerner |
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15.2 Supplier Evaluation at EADS |
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15.4 Amazon - A Virtual Supply Chain |
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Chapter 16 Project Management |
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Project management in the organization |
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Project management activities |
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16.1 Project Management: Lessons can be learned from successful delivery |
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16.2 Fast Homes - Courtesy of Prefabrication |
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401 | (3) |
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Methodologies for quality improvement |
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Statistical process control (SPC) |
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17.2 Adventures in Six Sigma: How the Problem-solving Technique Helped Xerox |
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17.3 A Disciple of Japanese Quality Management |
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Chapter 18 Performance Measurement and Improvement |
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How do we measure performance? |
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Where should we improve performance? |
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How do we improve performance? |
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18.1 Activity-Based Costing at a Police Service |
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18.2 In the Age of the Smart Machine |
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18.3 Managers Disrupt Learning with their `Great Ideas' |
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18.4 Process Improvement at a UK Police Service |
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Glossary |
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Index |
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