This innovative Flexible version of the Heizer/Render Operations Management 7th edition consists of a paperback textbook, a Student Lecture Guide, and a student CD-ROM all packaged together. The flexible version offers all the contents and features of their best-selling hardcover text. Superb problems/exercises, increased service coverage (integration of Hard Rock and other service companies), up-to-date topical coverage. Now packaged in a new, less-expensive, flexible format. It gives students the choice of carrying exactly what they need to class.





From the Back Cover

These texts provide readers with a state-of-the-art overview of operations management. The goal of these texts is to show the fundamental principles of operations and how they relate to making a firm more competitive. Both books include the identical core chapters 1-17, but the hardbound book IM 6/e also includes six quantitative modules. These modules are not included in the paperback version. Operations Strategy for Competitive Advantage, designing operations, managing operations, and quantitative modules (Only available in hardcover version). For individuals in production and operations management.





A text/CD-ROM introduction to operations management, organized around 10 critical decisions in practice. Part I introduces concepts, and Part II describes designing operations. Part III describes managing operations in terms of performance, and Part IV outlines analytical techniques for decision making. Pedagogical features include margin notes, worked examples, critical thinking exercises, and database application problems. Also includes 46 case studies, global company profiles, boxed readings from newspapers, and video cases. The CD-ROM contains slides of main points, quizes, and simulation software.



I. INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT.

1. Operations and Productivity.

2. Operations Strategy in a Global Environment.

3. Project Management.

4. Forecasting.

II. DESIGNING OPERATIONS.

5. Design of Goods and Services.

6. Managing Quality.

6S. Statistical Process Control.

7. Process Strategy.

7S. Capacity Planning.

8. Location Strategies.

9. Layout Strategy.

10. Human Resources and Job Design.

10S. Work Measurement.

II. MANAGING OPERATIONS.

11. Supply Chain Management.

11S. E-Commerce and Operations Management.

12. Inventory Management.

13. Aggregate Planning.

14. Material Requirement Planning and ERP.

15. Short-Term Scheduling.

16. Just-In-Time and Lean Systems.

17. Maintenance and Reliability.

IV. QUANTITATIVE MODULES.

A. Decision Making Tools.

B. Linear Programming.

C. Transportation Models.

D. Waiting Line Models.

E. Learning Curves.

F. Simulation.