Operations Management: Second Edition: English (Second Edition)

Author: Russell
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
Features: We strive to make this book highly contemporary and comprehensive. In today's operational management field, numerous significant changes have occurred, and we aim to organically integrate these new developments with more traditional production management content. Therefore, we focus on quality and competitiveness in this book and weave the concept of "strategy" throughout, as it is a crucial factor embedded within quality and competitiveness. We do not consider quality management to be merely a recent trend that has emerged in the field of production management in recent years. Operational managers make decisions for the company within the following functional areas: product and service design, internal facility layout and site selection planning, corporate planning and scheduling, supply chain management, etc. The foundation of these decisions lies in the extent to which they collectively contribute to the strategic design aimed at achieving corporate goals. The chapters in this book are arranged according to the functions of each department, including both traditional and newly introduced ones. Of course, for each chapter, we attempt to demonstrate to readers the relationship between the discussed topics and the two major themes of quality and competitiveness, and analyze their interplay from a strategic perspective.