10th edition of Slack, Brandon-Jones & Burgess: Operations Management with Revel for enhanced learning experience
Give your students a comprehensive introduction to the concepts of direction, design, delivery and development of operations management with popular text, Operations Management by Slack, Brandon-Jones & Burgess. The authors give students the benefit of their wealth of experience helping improve businesses of all shapes and sizes, including a plethora of international examples. New and updated content includes:
- Emphasis on Lean Operations and its role in planning, control and improvement.
- Extended problems and applications questions – to aid practice in analyzing operations.
- New responsible operations sections covering social, ethical and environmental issues.
- Added 11 new end-of-chapter case studies – suitable for short class discussions and more extended activities.
- Over 100 Operations in Practice examples.
- Further guidance for analyzing operations issues through worked examples.
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