Slack, Nigel creator Chambers, Stuart Harland, Christine Harrison, Alan text xxu London Pitman Publishers c1995 monographic eng

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xiv,914p.: ill.; 25cm. Contents: Introduction: Operations management -- The Strategic role and objectives of operation -- Operations strategy -- Design: Design in operations management -- The Design of products and services -- Design of the operations network -- Layout and flow -- Process technology -- Job design and work organization -- Planning and control: The Nature of planning and control -- Capacity planning and control -- Inventory planning and control -- Supply chain planning and control -- MRP -- Just-in-time planning and control -- Project planning and control -- Quality planning and control -- Improvement: Operations improvement -- Failure prevention and recovery -- Total quality management -- The Operations challenge: The Operations challenge -- Appendix 1: forcasting the volume of demand -- Appendix 2: time estimation-work measurement -- Appendix 3: the recording techniques of method study. Nigel Slack et al. Includes index Operations management TS155.S1 0273603167 120801