Operations Management in Context

Name: Operations Management in Context
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ISBN: 9780750681988

ISBN-10: 0750681985

ISBN-13: 9780750681988

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Frank Rowbotham, Masoud Azhashemi, Les Galloway

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Operations Management in Context is a straightforward and accessible text which provides students with a good grounding in the theory and practise of operations management and its role within organizations. The structure is clear and logical, leading newcomers to this subject through the topics in a way to maximize comprehension, highlighting key issues and using case studies and examples from business to contextualize learning. Chapters are structured to enable incremental and progressive learning with a logical development of the content. Each chapter is linked and ends with a summary of the key points to aid revision. Exercises and self-assessment questions are included to reinforce…

Book details

List price: $67.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/22/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 452
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Les Galloway (1912-1990), while still a teenager, shipped out to New Zealand as a seaman; a few years later he dropped out of college to enlist in the Bolivian army. For most of his life he was a commercial fisherman out of San Francisco. His stories were published in Esquire and Prairie Schooner.



The operations function


The context of operations management


Organisation of the operations process


Design and measurement of work


Managing productivity at work


Planning and control of work1: capacity


Planning and control of work 2: materials


Batch and flow scheduling


Project planning and control


Purchasing and supply chain management


Quality management


Strategic issues in operations management


Case studies


Answers to self test questions


Index