Synopses & Reviews
The Eleventh Edition of Stevensons Operations Management features integrated, up-to-date coverage of current topics and industry trends, while preserving the core concepts that have made the text the market leader in this course for over a decade. Stevensons careful explanations and approachable format support students in understanding the important operations management concepts as well as applying tools and methods with an emphasis on problem solving. Through detailed examples and solved problems, short cases and readings on current issues facing businesses, and auto-gradable end of chapter problems and application-oriented assignments available in Connect Operations Management, students learn by doing, and the Eleventh Edition continues to offer more support for 'doing Operations' than any other.
About the Author
Dr. Stevenson is an associate professor of Decision Sciences in the College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in production/operations management, management science, quality concepts, and quality applications. He is the author of textbooks in management science, statistics, as well as production/operations management. His articles have appeared in Management Science and Decision Sciences. He also serves as a consultant to the New York State Regents External Degree program. His current research interests are in quality applications. Dr. Stevenson received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, and an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in production/operations management from Syracuse University.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Operations Management
2. Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity
3. Forecasting
4. Product and Service Design
Supplement: Reliability
5. Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and Services
Supplement: Decision Theory
6. Process Selection and Facilities Layout
7. Work Design and Measurement
Supplement: Learning Curves
8. Location Planning and Analysis
Supplement: The Transportation Model
9. Management of Quality
10. Quality Control
Supplement: Acceptance Sampling
11. Aggregate Planning and Master Scheduling
12. MRP and ERP
13. Inventory Management
14. JIT and Lean Operations
Supplement: Maintenance
15. Supply Chain Management
16. Scheduling
17. Project Management
18. Management of Waiting Lines
19. Linear Programming
Appendix A Answers to Selected Problems
Appendix B Tables
Appendix C Working with the Normal Distribution
Company Index
Subject Index