Operations Management – Sustainability and Supply Chain Management
The book presents a broad introduction to the field of operations in a realistic and practical manner, while offering the largest and most diverse collection of issues on the market. This edition employs a strategic framework that identifies and illustrates facilities, inventory, transportation, and information as the key factors of operations management-to help readers better understand concepts important to today's operations management professionals. Students and practitioners will be able to relate the operations management theories discussed in the book to their actual practice in the Indian companies.
Table of Content
Part one Introduction to Operations Management
Chapter 1 Operations and Productivity
Chapter 2 Operations Strategy in a Global Environment
Chapter 3 Project Management
Chapter 4 Forecasting
Part two Designing Operations
Chapter 5 Design of Goods and Services
Supplement 5 sustainability in the supply Chain
Chapter 6 Managing Quality
Supplement 6 statistical process Control
Chapter 7 Process Strategy
Supplement 7 Capacity and Constraint management
Chapter 8 Location Strategies
Chapter 9 Layout Strategies
Chapter 10 Human Resources, Job Design, and Work Measurement
Part three Managing Operations
Chapter 11 Supply Chain Management
Supplement 11 supply Chain management analytics
Chapter 12 Inventory Management
Chapter 13 Aggregate Planning and S&OP
Chapter 14 Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and ERP
Chapter 15 Short-Term Scheduling
Chapter 16 Lean Operations
Chapter 17 Maintenance and Reliability
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Salient Features
• Sixteen new case studies on operations management strategies in the Indian context, such as Indigo Airlines, Micromax, Indian Railways, etc, have been added.
• Nineteen ';OM in Action' boxed matter focusing on the operations management concepts in the Indian context, such as Toyota, Cipla, Air India, Flipkart, etc., have been incorporated.
• Balanced and up-to-date coverage of examples from the service and manufacturing sectors in the Indian scenario have been added in each chapter.
• Well-structured questions like ';Discussion Questions' and ';Self Test' questions have been provided with each chapter so that students can test their understanding and understand difficult concepts.
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