Operations Management for Competitive Advanage with CD-ROM and PowerWeb

Section One: Operations Strategy and Managing Change 1. Introduction to the Field 2. Operations Strategy and CompetitivenessTechnical Note 2 - Learning Curves 3. Project Management Section Two: Product Design and Process Selection 4. Process Analysis Technical Note 4 - Job Design and Work Measurement 5. Product Design & Process Selection - ManufacturingTechnical Note 5 - Facility Layout 6. Product Design & Process Selection - Services Technical Note 6 - Waiting Line Management 7. Quality Management Technical Note 7 Process Capability and Statistical Quality Control Section Three: Supply Chain Design Managerial Briefing - Electronic Commerce and E-Ops 8. Supply Chain Strategy 9. Strategic Capacity Management Technical Note 9 Facility Location 10. Just-in-Time and Lean Systems Section Four: Planning and Controlling the Supply ChainManagerial Briefing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems 11. Forecasting 12. Aggregate Planning 13. Inventory Control 14. Material Requirements Planning 15. Operations Scheduling Technical Note 15 - Simulation Section Five: Revising the System 16. Consulting and Reengineering 17. Synchronous Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints Appendix A: Answers to Selected Problems Appendix B: Uniformly Distributed Random Digits Appendix C: Normally Distributed Random Digits Appendix D: Areas of Standard Normal Distribution Appendix E: Areas of the Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution Appendix F. Negative Exponential Distribution Value of e -x Appendix G. Interest Tables Supplements: A. Linear Programming Using Excel Solver B. Financial Analysis C. Operations Technology Photo Credits Name Index Subject IndexNicholas J Aquilano is the author of 'Operations Management for Competitive Advanage with CD-ROM and PowerWeb', published 2001 under ISBN 9780072509618 and ISBN 0072509619.