Essentials of Operations Management Jamshed A. Modi

1 Introduction To Operations
2 Corporate and Operations Strategy
3 Forecasting
4 Facility Location
5 Sales and Operations (Aggregate) Planning
6 Production Planning
7 Material Requirements Planning
8 Scheduling and Sequencing of Jobs
9 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
10 Inventory Management
11 Facility Layout
12 Supply Chain Management
13 Quality Management
14 Lean Operations
15 Project Management
16 Service Operations
17 Job Design, Evaluation And Compensation

Designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services is what Operations Management is all about. This book is a concise volume on all those bare essentials of Operations Management.

Authored with a practical approach, the book focuses on applications involved in Operations Management which are used to streamline the systems and functions of any organization. The chapters are well-supported with Cases, Solved Examples, and Numerical Problems.

The book is also incorporated with Appendices on the Standard and Normal Distribution Table, the Poisson Distribution Table, and Linear Programming to make the calculations on statistics and mathematics easy.

Designed as a text for the undergraduate students of Engineering (Mechanical) and postgraduate students of Management, the book is equally useful as a handy reference for Engineers, Operations Managers and Management Professionals.