Foundations Of Operations Management

This book addresses a growing demand for a brief treatment of operations management. At less than 500 pages, it comprehensively covers the essential topics for active learners.Chapter topics include competing with operations, process management, managing project processes, managing technology, quality, capacity, location and layout, supply chain management, forecasting, inventory management, aggregate planning and scheduling, resource planning, and lean systems.For project managers and other business personnel who need to manage and improve processes.

As with previous Canadian editions, Ritzman continues to focus on meeting the need in many educational settings for a shorter book that has strong coverage of critical concepts and retains a rich set of pedagogical features. Fundamentals of Operations Management places an emphasis on three critical themes for operations management; effective process management, the importance of cross-functional integration, and the role of operations in the creation of customer value. This unifying theme for service and manufacturing organizations builds bridges between each chapter and opens up the topics in operations to all students, regardless of their academic background or career paths.

Covering topics in the field such as business process reengineering, services, interdisciplinary links, and the importance of processes, the main focus is on concepts and operations management applications.

The Fifth Edition blends the latest in strategic issues with proven analytical techniques, offers a wealth of technology to bring operations management alive, and engages students with proven pedagogy.

Foundations of Production and Operations Management focuses on the concepts essential to a simple-quantitative understanding of strategies and tactics in the P/OM field. Using a managerial focus with the systems approach, this book clarifies the field of Production and Operations Management in its current state. The systems approach is ideal for the managerial focus because the systems approach crosses functional boundaries in search of best solutions. This line of attack has come into strong favor by industry managers. In lieu of detailed quantitative discussions, Starr has streamlined, clarified, and updated fundamental qualitative concepts of business and P/OM. This introductory text provides students with a solid managerial framework for making better decisions, developing career skills, and problem-solving to support company sustainability. The writing style encourages educational literacy. This textbook is dedicated to broad educational objectives in the belief that managers prefer to hire well-informed students.