Operations Management Analysis: Using Excel: Using Excel

Author: Wei Da
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Operations management studies the changing processes in the production of goods and services. This book teaches how to use Excel to analyze management problems, enabling decision-makers to make better and easier decisions. In today's competitive and volatile global market, mastering relevant quantitative modeling methods has become a top priority, so managers should acquire more advanced and powerful management tools. Building models with Excel can solve the cumbersome calculation problems that often cause headaches when learning operations management. However, this book also emphasizes that decision-making requires careful thought and planning, avoiding the misconception that Excel can only be used for simple calculations. There are many excellent textbooks on operations management and numerous manuals on Excel, but no book has organically combined the two. Excel can better help analyze how to solve problems, and many methods in this book are not included in traditional operations management textbooks. This book not only teaches how to simplify the analysis of business management problems but also delves deeper into their details. The book primarily focuses on constructing and solving operations management problems, but these methods can also be applied to other decision-making contexts. The book strives to consider problems from multiple perspectives, unlike most traditional operations management textbooks that approach issues from a single angle. The three authors have complementary strengths, having either won numerous teaching awards or written best-selling textbooks. Their research areas also have different focuses: some have years of teaching experience in operations and economic management, some excel in writing computer-oriented trade textbooks, and others have a strong foundation in mathematics and statistics.