OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT WITH STUDENT DVD AND POWERWEB STEVENSON W. Księgarnia

Stevenson's Operations Management surveys the field of operations in both the services and manufacturing. As always, this new edition offers complete, balanced, and flexible coverage of operations management. With hands-on examples and support in the text, and the most extensive technology support package available, your students will have a practical, deep, up to date, and motivating study resource. Combine that with the clear explanations of topics, and the countless presentation enhancements-suggested by instructors like you-this new Eighth Edition is the best ever. Coverage flows from the overall strategic issues of designing products and services and making major capacity and location decisions, through the operating processes and control systems, including well supported quantitative applications. Many specialty topics and quantitative techniques are segmented as supplements that can be highlighted or bypassed depending on your course structure. They are also supported with step-by-step examples and solved problems, many including example solutions built into Excel spreadsheets.

New to This Edition

Pedagogical Features 'Taking Stock' and 'Critical Thinking Exercises' these have been added to the end of each chapter to augment student learning
Taking Stock - consists of several questions related to the chapter's material that are well-suited for classroom discussion; providing instructors with a new tool to stimulate interest and generate student participation
Critical Thinking Exercises - related to chapter topics, these new exercises require students to use and apply a more integrated understanding of the concepts and knowledge in the chapter. The exercises lend themselves to homework assignments for an individual or for a group, and perhaps a brief in-class response or presentation.
Increased Material on Services -understanding the need for more service coverage, while acknowledging the vital role of manufacturing in the economy, new and more content on services has been integrated and interspersed throughout the entire text.
Improved content coverage -In every chapter, improvements have been made based on suggestions from adopters and reviewers. These include new updated coverage, and replacement by improved treatments, new graphics and photos, and citation of new company examples to illustrate key concepts. Problems, examples, exercises, and cases have all been updated to match the content changes as well.
Organizational improvements- The Quality chapters have been consolidated from 3 to 2 chapters; Supply Chain Management has been revised, expanded, and positioned later in the text in order to follow the inventory and scheduling section.
New Readings and News clips - to keep current with the latest innovations and ideas of operations management, we have added new readings and news clips and replaced many in order to provide a rich selection.
Student DVD - a new interactive component for students that builds upon the material in book has been added to this edition. With videos such as Louisville Slugger and Disney World, study outlines, Power Point presentations, operations management software, Excel templates and data files, and new ScreenCam tutorials Screencam Tutorials, your students will be engaged and supported in taking an active role in studying and learning.
OM Video Series - Volumes 9 and 10 - new operations management videos highlight companies such as Hotel Monaco in Chicago, Gortrac, St. Alexius Hospital, and Disney World, giving students some new applications and ideas in both products and services companies.

Features

Clear and Concise Coverage - Stevenson's dedication to teaching is exemplified through his presentation of the material and his continuous effort to make improvements based on hundreds on reviewer's comments.
Most Balanced Coverage - balanced coverage can be seen in the quantitative and qualitative topics covered throughout the text; as well as the examples from manufacturing and services and the balance of popular press, classic readings and short articles. The instructor has the choice of what to cover during the course and the student has a better comprehension of the importance the role of operations management has in today's world.
Learn By Doing - Based on Stevenson's philosophy that students learn best by practice, numerous examples, solved problems, questions, problems and cases are found throughout the book.

Table of Contents

Part I INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction to Operations Management
2. Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity

Part II FORECASTING

3. Forecasting

Part III SYSTEM DESIGN

4. Product and Service Design
5. Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and Services
6. Process Selection and Facility Layout
7. Design of Work Systems
8. Location Planning and Analysis

Part IV QUALITY

9. Management of Quality
10. Quality Control

Part V INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING

11. Inventory Management
12. Aggregate Planning
13. MRP & ERP
14. JIT and Lean Operations
15. Scheduling

Part VI SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

16. Supply Chain Management

Part VII PROJECT MANAGEMENT

17. Project Management

Part VIII WAITING LINES AND SIMULATION

18. Waiting Lines

Po otrzymaniu zamówienia poinformujemy,
czy wybrany tytuł polskojęzyczny lub anglojęzyczny jest aktualnie na półce księgarni.