Loose Leaf for Operations Management in the Supply Chain: Decisions and Cases

by Susan Meyer Goldstein, Roger G. Schroeder

Overview

Appropriate for both undergraduates and MBA students, Operations Management in the Supply Chain: Decisions and Cases, 8e is a guide to operations that takes a unique approach to decision making with a strong emphasis on case materials to put concepts into practice. It provides a balanced treatment of both service and manufacturing firms in a fully updated 4 color revision with modern real-world topics, more Connect content and case solutions. This is the first book to include cross functional decision making for non-majors. In addition, current knowledge is included on global operations, supply chain management, competency-based strategy, Six Sigma, lean systems, artificial intelligence, analytics, sustainability, supply chain risk, and digital technology content like 3D printing and blockchain. Enhanced Connect content includes, SmartBook 2.0, OMintheNews, Practice Operations, and Interactive Data Problems designed to help students visualize key concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260937008
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/03/2020
Edition description:	8th ed.
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	7.48(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.79(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Susan Meyer Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Supply Chain and Operations Department at the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. She earned a B.S. degree in Genetics and Cell Biology and an M.B.A. at the University of Minnesota and worked in the health care industry for several years. She later obtained a Ph.D. in operations management from Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. She has served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota since 1998 and was a Visiting Professor at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis for two years. Her current research investigates the link between service process design and process performance, and she is currently working with a Minnesota hospital that has been achieving one of the lowest heart attack mortality rates in the United States. She is also interested in issues related to aging service workers, operations strategy, and service quality. Her research has been published in Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management, among others. She is Associate Editor at Journal of Operations Management, Decision Science Journal, Quality Management Journal, and Service Industries Journal and serves on the editorial boards of many operations and service journals. She is the recipient of several research awards and research grants, and received the 2011 Carlson School of Management Teaching Award.

Donaldson Chair in Operations Management at the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is also the Co-Director of the Juran Center for Leadership in Quality and has earned an appointment as a Distinguished Teaching Professor. He received the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering with high distinction from the University of Minnesota, MSIE University of Minnesota and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, he taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, and was an analyst for the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. Professor Schroeder has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, American Production and Inventory Control Society, Exxon Education Foundation and the National Science Foundation. He is a recipient of the Morse Award for outstanding teaching at the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Introduction
Ch. 1 Introduction to Operations
Ch. 2 Operations and Supply Chain Strategy
Ch. 3 Product Design

PART TWO: Process Design
Ch. 4 Process Selection
Ch. 5 Service Process Design
Ch. 6 Process-Flow Analysis
Ch. 7 Lean Thinking and Lean Systems

PART THREE: Quality
Ch. 8 Managing Quality
Ch. 9 Quality Control and Improvement

PART FOUR: Capacity and Scheduling
Ch. 10 Forecasting Supplement: Advanced Methods
Ch. 11 Capacity Planning
Ch. 12 Scheduling Operations
Ch. 13 Project Planning and Scheduling

PART FIVE: Inventory
Ch. 14 Independent Demand Inventory Supplement: Advanced Models
Ch. 15 Materials Requirements Planning and ERP

PART SIX: Supply Chain Decisions
Ch. 16 Supply Chain Management
Ch. 17 Sourcing
Ch. 18 Global Logistics

PART SEVEN: Case Studies