The SAGE Course Companion on Operations Management is an accessible introduction to the subject that will help readers to extend their understanding of key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. It provides support on how to revise for exams and prepare for and write assessed pieces. Readers are encouraged not only to think like an operations manager but also to think about the subject critically.
This is a substantial new edition of a successful textbook which continues to have a sensible and 'easy to read' style.
Their expertise and knowledge is apparent in the text, and they bring to it their original research and experience in the field of operations management.
Drawing on his extensive industrial and consultancy experience, Terry Hill balances the strategic role of the operations manager with day-to-day management tasks, and shows how each step and decision in operations is affected by market ...
Slack, N. (1991) Manufacturing Advantage: Achieving Competitive Manufacturing Operations, Mercury. • Slack, N. and Lewis, M. (2008) Operations Strategy, 2nd edn, Pearson Education Ltd. • Slack, N., Chambers, S. and Johnston, ...
This beloved and market-leading Operations Management book has been completely updated in the 14th edition and provides a clear presentation of the field of Operations Management with current real-world examples and thoughtful student ...
First published in Great Britain in 1995 by Pitman Publishing Southern Africa edition published in 1997 © 2000 Pearson Education , South Africa The Higher Education Division of Maskew Miller Longman www.pearsoned.co.za Ninth impression ...
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1.1 INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Operations Management is a systematic approach to address all the issues pertaining to the transformation process that converts some inputs into output that are useful , and could fetch revenue ...
liability to sound service operations management Capacity policies must be thoroughly reconceptualized. A new philosophy is needed. Indeed, it is philosophy that is most in need of revision. Physical resources are no longer the primary ...
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