Operations Management: Strategy and Analysis: Lee J. Krajewski, Larry P. Ritzman
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Provides an introduction to the role of operations management and its interface with all functional areas within organizations. This volume includes customer-driven strategies with a revised chapter on process management, such as materials on basic process types and how they relate [...]
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“Why aren’t you using the ONLY book expressly written for your Intermediate/Advanced Corporate Finance course?” This comprehensive text contains enough background material to refresh and reinforce earlier courses in corporate finance while still providing enough advanced material to stimulate the most advanced learner. The predominant strengths of clarity, current coverage, [...]
Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, Concepts: Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, Robert E. Hoskisson
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Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, 4e continues the authors tradition of quality and excellence in presenting how firms achieve strategic competitiveness, through a timely and clear writing style. The text uniquely focuses the strategic management process on [...]
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Focusing on how Operations Management (OM) fits into the business environment, this book takes OM beyond the factory setting by illustrating how OM is everywhere. By approaching the subject in an applied fashion, it introduces readers to all aspects of OM and allows them to immediately apply that knowledge to the [...]
Integrated Logistics Support Handbook (Mcgraw-Hill Logistics): James V. Jones
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The principles and methods of integrated logistics support (ILS) are crucial to the development of military as well as consumer product applications. This work incorporates the latest requirements for all areas of ILS, including reliability and maintainability engineering, maintenance planning, provisioning, and training. [...]
Operations Management: Jay Heizer, Barry Render
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(Pearson Education) A broad introduction to the field of operations management, presenting the current view of the operations function as a realistic set of activities and practices that improve everyday life. The CD-ROM contains lecture notes and video cases of real companies, as well as practice [...]
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Excellent topic coverage - I especially like the coverage on technology selection & management, supply chain management, and maintenance management.
I like the way the appendices are handled at the end of the text and not scattered throughout the text. Gaither/Frazier has done a good job [...]
Inventory accuracy starts with an understanding of the conditions under which errors occur and ends with error-resistant processes, intelligent use of technology, a well-trained and highly motivated workforce, and an ongoing process of continuous improvement. In between, there’s cycle counting, root cause analysis, process evaluation, user interface design, procedures, employee training, accountability, control [...]
This wide-ranging reader locates supply chain management, lean production and related practice within the holistic concept of total product systems.
Demonstrates the strategic relevance of managing supply chains and supply networks to organizational performance and to a range of business functions, including finance, design, production, environmental management, information systems, and marketing.
Considers sustainable supply [...]
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“In this second edition, Meir Kohn addresses the structure of financial institutions and markets and investigates why and how existing markets are evolving. The book emphasizes a functional focus on financial intermediaries and markets such as government securities, mortgage, corporate debt, equity markets, derivatives, and market microstructure. [...]
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