Operations Management for Competitive Advantage, 10/e

Operations Management, Chase et al. Book Information, Review and Summary of Chapters for Revision

Authors

Richard B. Chase, University of Southern California
F. Robert Jacobs, Indiana University–Bloomington
Nicholas J. Aquilano, University of Arizona

McGraw-Hill

ISBN: 0072506369
Copyright year: 2004

Table of Contents

Links point out to review notes on the topics posted by Narayana Rao in Management Theory Review Blogs

SECTION ONE: OPERATIONS STRATEGY AND MANAGING CHANGE

1. Introduction to the Field
2. Operations Strategy and Competitiveness
Technical note 2 Learning Curves
3. Project Management
SECTION TWO: PRODUCT DESIGN AND PROCESS SELECTION

4. Process Analysis
Technical note 4 Job Design and Work Measurement
5. Product Design
5b.Process Selection—Manufacturing
5c. Manufacturing Process Selection and Design
Technical note 5 Facility Layout
6. Product Design and Process Selection—Services
Technical note 6 Waiting Line Management
7. Total Quality Management: Focus on Six Sigma
Technical note 7 Process Capability and Statistical Quality Control
8. Operations Consulting and Reengineering
SECTION THREE: SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN
(Managerial Briefing Electronic Commerce and E-Ops©)
9. Supply Chain Strategy
10. Strategic Capacity Management
Technical note 10 Facility Location
11. Just-in-Time and Lean Systems
SECTION FOUR: PLANNING AND CONTROLLING THE SUPPLY CHAIN
(Managerial Briefing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems)
12. Forecasting
13. Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning
14. Inventory Control
15. Material Requirements Planning
16. Operations Scheduling
Technical note 16 Simulation
17. Synchronous Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints
SUPPLEMENTS
A. Linear Programming with the Excel Solver
B. Financial Analysis
C. Operations Technology
APPENDICES

A. Answers to Selected Problems
B. Uniformly Distributed Random Digits
C. Normally Distributed Random Digits
D. Areas of the Standard Normal Distribution
E. Areas of the Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution
F. Negative Exponential Distribution: Value of e^-x
G. Interest Tables

Book Information Web page

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072506369/information_center_view0/



Summaries of Chapters for Revision

   What is Operations Management?


   Strategic Capacity Management
   Just-in-Time and Lean Systems

   Forecasting
  Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning
  Inventory Control
  Material Requirements Planning
  Operations Scheduling

  Financial Analysis for Operations Management

Related Knol Book

Manufacturing Management - Knol Book


Slides Operations Management course Dr.Steward Zhu
http://teaching.ust.hk/~ismt162/
Based on Stevenson's Book

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