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Operations management / Alex Hill & Terry Hill.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: xxii, 778 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780333775929
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Managing OperationsOperations StrategyManaging People Corporate Social Responsibility and EthicsDesigning and Developing Services & ProductsDesigning Service Delivery SystemsDesigning Manufacturing ProcessesLocation and LayoutManaging CapacityOperations Scheduling & ExecutionManaging QualityManaging InventoryManaging the Supply ChainImproving Operations Analyzing a Business.
Summary: "Operations Management is an ideal text for courses requiring an in-depth yet accessible guide to operations management. This edition has been fully updated to provide coverage of service and manufacturing industries that reflects the modern business environment. Cases cover a range of global brands, ensuring students can apply theory to the real world. New to this edition: - New chapters on CSR, Ethics and "Analyzing the Business" - Increased coverage of performance measurement - New coverage of six sigma and Taguchi - New section on lean management and improving operations - Increased coverage of MRP - Chapters on time and productivity, maintenance and new technology removed - The preface has been overhauled with a section dedicated to the differences between Operations Management and Essentials of Operations Management - All the chapters have been re-worked to make the content broader and the coverage deeper"-- Provided by publisher.
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General General ATU Mayo General Shelves 658.5 HIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available J165947

Order of authors reversed from previous ed.

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Managing OperationsOperations StrategyManaging People Corporate Social Responsibility and EthicsDesigning and Developing Services & ProductsDesigning Service Delivery SystemsDesigning Manufacturing ProcessesLocation and LayoutManaging CapacityOperations Scheduling & ExecutionManaging QualityManaging InventoryManaging the Supply ChainImproving Operations Analyzing a Business.

"Operations Management is an ideal text for courses requiring an in-depth yet accessible guide to operations management. This edition has been fully updated to provide coverage of service and manufacturing industries that reflects the modern business environment. Cases cover a range of global brands, ensuring students can apply theory to the real world. New to this edition: - New chapters on CSR, Ethics and "Analyzing the Business" - Increased coverage of performance measurement - New coverage of six sigma and Taguchi - New section on lean management and improving operations - Increased coverage of MRP - Chapters on time and productivity, maintenance and new technology removed - The preface has been overhauled with a section dedicated to the differences between Operations Management and Essentials of Operations Management - All the chapters have been re-worked to make the content broader and the coverage deeper"-- Provided by publisher.

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