Production and Operations Management [antikvár]

The American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) requires that all accredited schools include Production and Operations Management (POM) in their common body of knowledge. Schools of business in growing numbers have included POM courses in their academic programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This book is developed to meet the need for comprehensive text materials in these and other POM courses. The third edition retains the distinctive features of the eariier editions: 1. Production Function Perspective. The text places the student squarely in the production/operations function in a variety of organizations. The concepts, issues, and decisions of operations managers are emphasized by allowing students to identify and analyze a variety of operationad problems. 2. Practical View of POM. Most of the problems and examples in the text have been abstracted from actual problems that have been analyzed by the author or his associates. The view presented is one of realism about real-world manufacturing, service, and governmental organizations. 3. Nontheoretical Approach. The text presents the quantitative topics of POM side by side with managerial issues and concepts for a balanced view of POM problems. When quantitative approaches are appropriate, the text presents these approaches in a nontheoretical way. This objective is accomplished by emphasizing operational problems rather than the solution techniques and by using examples to demonstrate the procedures of the techniques. 4. Liberal Use of Examples with Solutions. Each chapter of the text includes examples of POM problems and their complete solutions. These example problems are solved step by step so that students can follow the details of the solutions. 5. End-of-Chapter Problems and Cases. A strength of the text is its problem sets and cases. The problems and cases are numerous, are about practical POM situations, and can be worked directly from the information in the chapters. The problems exhibit a progression of rigor as one proceeds through a set. 6. Almost Error-Free Text and Supporting Materials. All texts can contain errors. We have worked very hard to eliminate all of the errors from the text, the Instructor's Solutions Manual, and the Instructor's Resource Manual. A thorough job of technical editing and proofreading along with class-testing of all problems, examples, and cases have contributed to what we believe to be a very accurate POM text.