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Book cover image of Operations Management: Policy, Practice and Performance Improvement by Steve Brown

Authors: Steve Brown, Paul Cousins, Harvey Maylor, Kate Blackmon, Kate Blackmon
ISBN-13: 9780750649957, ISBN-10: 075064995X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Date Published: June 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Steve Brown

Book Synopsis

'Operations Management: policy, practices, performance improvement' is the latest state-of-the-art approach to operations management. It provides new cutting edge input into operations management theory and practice that cannot be found in any other text.

Discussing both strategic and tactical inputs it combines and balances service and manufacturing operations.

* Cutting edge techniques accompanied by brand new case studies
* Challenges standard approaches
* Comprehensive coverage of strategic supply management
* Critical sample questions to aid discussion
* Reading lists and articles to support learning
* Additional lecturer support material

This outstanding author team is from the Operations Management Group at the University of Bath. Their expertise and knowledge is apparent in the text, and they bring to it their original research and experience in the field of operations management.

Cutting edge techniques employed New case study material to support points in the text Critical sample questions to assist the learning process

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1Operations management: content, history and current issues3
2Operations strategy: the strategic role of operations38
3Innovation: developing new products and services67
4Operations processes: process choice and layout; developing new products and services99
5Managing supply130
6Managing capacity: managing transforming resources161
7Managing throughput: improving material, customer and information flows202
8Project management: content, history and current issues238
9Managing quality265
10Performance measurement and improvement306
11World-class operations337
S1Analysing manufacturing operations: quantitative methods371
S2Analysing service operations: service delivery, queuing, and shift scheduling405
Index429

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