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Operations and Supply Chain Management, 17e covers the latest and most important issues facing operations and supply chain management (OSCM) managers while providing basic tools and techniques to promote a competitive advantage and career-readiness. It covers relevant, current OSCM issues with a focus on the global economy, analytic content that ties decisions to relevant data, and solutions to operations and supply chain-related problems. Hot topics in business today that relate to OSCM are mitigating the risk of disruptions while reducing the cost of supply chain processes, integration and collaboration with customers and suppliers, sustainability and minimizing the long-term cost of products and processes. These topics are studied in the book to clarify the "big picture" of what these topics are and why they are important to business today. The seventeenth edition supplies many examples of leading-edge companies and practices to make the book an interesting and relevant read.
List of contents
Section One: Strategy, Products, and CapacityChapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Strategy
Chapter 3: Design of Products and Services
Chapter 4: Projects
Chapter 5: Strategic Capacity Management
5S Investment Analysis
Chapter 6: Learning Curves
Section Two: Manufacturing and Service ProcessesChapter 7: Manufacturing Processes
7S ManufacturingTechnology
Chapter 8: Facility Layout
Chapter 9: Service Processes
9S HealthCare
Chapter 10: Waiting Line Analysis and Simulation
Chapter 11: Process Design and Analysis
11S Operations Consulting
Chapter 12: Quality Management
Chapter 13: Statistical Quality Control
Section Three: Supply Chain ProcessesChapter 14: Lean Supply Chains
Chapter 15: Logistics and Distribution Management
Chapter 16: Global Sourcing and Procurement
Section Four: Supply and Demand Planning and ControlChapter 17: The Internet of Things and ERP
Chapter 18: Forecasting
Chapter 19: Sales and Operations Planning
19S Linear Programming Using the Excel Solver
Chapter 20: Inventory Management
Chapter 21: Material Requirements Planning
Chapter 22: Workcenter Scheduling
22S Theory of Constraints
APPENDICESA Interest Tables
B Negative Exponential Distribution: Values of E-x
C Areas of the Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution
D Uniformly Distributed Random Digits
E Answers to Selected Objective Questions
About the author
F. Robert Jacobs is Chase Faculty Fellow Professor of Operations Management at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering as well as Computer and Information Science, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Operations Management all from The Ohio State University.
