TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chase, Richard B. & others
TI  - Operations management for competitive advantage
SN  - 0070604487
U1  - 658.5 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Tata McGraw Hill Pub. Co. Ltd.
N1  - CONTENTS Preface  xiii Section 1 OPERATIONS STRATEGY AND MANAGING CHANGE Chapter 1: Introduction to the Field  3 Chapter 2: Operations Strategy and Competitiveness  23 Technical Note 2-Linear Programming using the Excel Solver  53 Chapter 3: Project Management  71 Chapter 4: Product Design  111 Technical Note 4-Learning Curves141 Section 2 PROCESS SELECTION AND DESIGN Chapter 5: Process Analysis  161 Technical Note 5-Job Design and Work Measurement192 Chapter 6: Manufacturing Process Selection and Design  223 Technical Note 6-Facility Layout242 Chapter 7: Service Process Selection and Design  281 Technical Note 7-Waiting Line Management310 Chapter 8: Quality Mangement: Focus on Six Sigma  339 Technical Note 8-Process Capability and Statistical Quality Control370 Chapter 9: Operations Consulting and Reengineering  399 Section 3 SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN Chapter 10: Supply Chain Strategy  435 Chapter 11: Strategic Capacity Management  460 Technical Note 11-Facility Location483 Chapter 12: Lean Production  505 Section 4  PLANNING AND CONTROLING THE SUPPLY CHAIN Chapter 13: Forecasting 537 Chapter 14: Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning 589 Chapter 15: Inventory Control 621 Chapter 16: Material Requirements Planning 668 Chapter 17: Operations Scheduling 706 Technical Note 17: Simulation738 Chapter 18: Synchronous Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints 766 Supplement A: Financial Analysis 802 Supplement B: Operations Technology 821 Appendix A: Uniformly Distributed Random Digits  831 Appendix B: Normally  Distributed Random Digits  832 Appendix C:  Areas of the Standard Normal  Distribution  833 Appendix D:  Areas of the Cumulative standard Normal Distribution834 Appendix E:  Negative Exponential Distribution: Values of e-x1836 Appendix F:  Interest Tables 838 Photo Credits  842 Name Index  843 Subject Index  848
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