WELCOME TO
Essentials of
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Operations Management is important, exciting, challenging, and everywhere
you look!
Important, because it’s concerned with creating all of the products and services upon
which we depend. Exciting, because it’s at the centre of so many of the changes affecting
the world of business. Challenging, because the solutions that wend need to work globally
and responsibly within society and the environment. And everywhere, because every service
and product that you use – the cereal you eat at breakfast, the chair you sit on, and the
radio station you listen to while you eat – is the result of an operation or process.
Our aim
in writing
Essentials of Operations Management
is to give you a
comprehensive
understanding
of the key issues and techniques of operations management, and to
help you get a greatnal result
in your course. Here’s how you might make the most
of the text:
● Get ahead with the latest developments – from the up-to-the-minute
Operations in
practice
features in every chapter to the focus on corporate social responsibility in the
third chapter – these
put you at the cutting edge
.
● Use the
Worked examples
and
Learning exercises
to improve your use of key
quantitative and qualitative techniques, and work your way to
better grades in your
assignments and exams
.
● Follow up on the recommended reading at the end of each chapter. The texts are
specially selected to enhance your learning and
give you an edge
in your course work.
And in particular, look out for the references
to
MyOMLab
in the text, and log on to
myomlab
* where you can:
● check and reinforce your understanding of key concepts using self-assessment
questions, audio summaries, animations, video clips and more;
● practice your problem-solving with feedback, guided solutions and a limitless supply
of questions!
● look up key terms in the online glossary (key terms are highlighted in red in the margins
of this book).
We want
Essentials of Operations Management
to give you what you need: a comprehensive
view of the key areas of the subject, an ambition to put that into practice, and – of course
– success in your studies. So, read on and good luck!
Nigel Slack
Alistair Brandon-Jones
Robert Johnston
* P.S. In order to
log in to MyOMLab
, you’ll need to
register with the access code
found within the
access card included with this book or available to buy online at
myomlab
Further reading in
OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
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