Essentials of Operations Management

Slack, Nigel

ISBN 10: 0273756192 / ISBN 13: 9780273756194

Published by Pearson Education, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Essentials of Operations Management

Publisher: Pearson Education

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis:

This package includes a physical copy of Essentials of Operations Management, 1st edition by Nigel Slack, Alistair Brandon-Jones, and Robert Johnston, as well as access to the eText and MyOMLab.

To access the eText and MyOMLab you need a course ID from your instructor.

 

Essentials of Operations Management is a brand new concise version of the market-leading text Operations Management. It has been developed forstudents on short courses in operations management – for example, doing an initial course at undergraduate, postgraduate or post-experience level.  In these books the author team have set the standards in Operations Management which other textbooks seek to emulate: Expert authorship, an engaging writing style, and an interesting collection of cases combine to communicate the importance of managing operations and processes within a successful organisation.

From the Back Cover:

This package includes a physical copy of Essentials of Operations Management, 1st edition by Nigel Slack, Alistair Brandon-Jones, and Robert Johnston, as well as access to the eText and MyOMLab.

To access the eText and MyOMLab you need a course ID from your instructor.

 

Operations management is important, exciting, challenging ... and everywhere you look!

Important, because it enables organizations to provide services and products that we all need.

Exciting, because it is central to constant changes in customer preference, networks of supply and demand, and developments in technology.

Challenging, because solutions must be must be financially sound, resource-efficient, as well as environmentally and socially responsible.

And everywhere, because in our daily lives, whether at work or at home, we all experience and manage processes and operations ...

Thousands of students worldwide have benefitted from the expert approach of the market-leading text Operations Management. The ‘grand master’ authors now transfer the same winning formula to this concise textbook, based on the bestselling Operations Management and particularly aimed at those studying just the essentials of operations management.

• Focus on the sustainable and socially responsible imperatives of operations management.
• Over 50 cases and illustrations of real-life operations around the world.
• Greater emphasis on ‘process management’, making the discipline directly relevant to all areas of an organisation’s activity.
• Worked examples to give you confidence in applying quantitative and qualitative problem-solving techniques.

Get exclusive access to online resources in MyOMLab, which will enable you to check your understanding, apply knowledge and techniques, and prepare for exams and assessments – all in your own time and at your own pace.