Operations Now: Supply Chain Profitability and Performance with Student DVD

by Byron Finch

Operations Now introduces operations from a vantage point that encompasses both the entire organization and the broader supply network. The author begins his discussion of operations management by first establishing the goal to which any high quality operation must the goal of profitability. Operations Now presents operations within a context that acknowledges its interactions both within all functional areas of an organization as well as the supply chain network serving it. Thus, students not majoring in operations management immediately understand why they are studying a subject that had previously seemed to them irrelevant; operations majors receive valuable instruction in how their chosen field affects and facilitates other functional areas within the enterprise and aligns with the overall goals of the organization.

769 pages, Hardcover

First published November 17, 2006

Reviews

[Risa]

Ok- normally I wouldn't include a text book in my reviews but this one I just must...Throughout the book, there are examples of how to solve equations and graph problems in Excel. These are called Excel Tutor. The problem is that the tutor is NOT user friendly at all and doesn't give a step by step instruction (click here, find standard equation symbol here, six sigma gets graphed here) etc. All it does is say "put the problem in Excel" THATS A TUTOR??? I don't think so. Most of the rest of the book was easy to follow. Would I recommend it? Hell no.