Operations Management 1e by Gerard Cacho
Print ISBN: 9781259142208, 1259142205
eText ISBN: 9781259148392, 1259148394
By: Gerard Cachon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Print ISBN: 9781259142208, 1259142205
eText ISBN: 9781259148392, 1259148394
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 2017
Cachon 1e is designed for undergraduate students taking an introductory course in operations management. This text will share many of the strengths of Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management (3e).Operations Management by Cachon comprehensively spans the relevant domain of topics is accessible to a typical undergraduate student (i.e. limited real world business experience) incorporates the latest research and knowledge and provides thorough pedagogical support for instructors along with innovative learning support for students. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need when they need it and how they need it so that your class time is more engaging and effective.
Preface
This introductory-level operations management title provides
the foundations of operations management. The book
is inspired by our combined 30 years teaching undergraduate
and MBA courses and our recent experience teaching thousands
of students online via Coursera.
Seeing the need for a title different from our (highly successful)
MBA textbook, we developed this new book for
undergraduate students and the general public interested
in operations. To engage this audience, we have focused our
material on modern operations and big-picture operations.
Modern operations means teaching students the content they
need in today’s world, not the world of 30 or 40 years ago. As
a result, “services” and “global” are incorporated throughout,
rather than confined to dedicated chapters. Manufacturing, of
course, cannot be ignored, but again, the emphasis is on contemporary
issues that are relevant and accessible to students. For
example, a Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) system is
important for the functioning of a factory, but students no longer
need to be able to replicate those calculations. Instead, students
should learn how to identify the bottleneck in a process and use
the ideas from the Toyota Production System to improve performance.
And students should understand what contract manufacturing
is and why it has grown so rapidly. In sum, we want
students to see how operations influence and explain their own
experiences, such as the security queue at an airport, the quality
of their custom sandwich, or the delay they experience to
receive a medical test at a hospital.
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