Production and Operations Management: Manufacturing and Service Industries

Author: Gong Guohua et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: With the rapid increase in China's economic volume, statistics show that China has ranked second in the world in terms of material output in manufacturing. This has led to significant development in management theory and technology in China's manufacturing and service industries. New methods and theories in production and operations management, such as mass customization, supply chain management, and co-competition, have also been widely applied in enterprises. This is the second edition of the book, which includes nineteen chapters: Introduction, Operations Strategy and Competitiveness, Product Development and Process Selection, Production System Layout, Production Process Organization, Production Capacity Planning, etc. Among these, mass customization and supply chain management are new additions by the authors of the second edition.