Operations and Supply Chain Management, 16e is a comprehensive breadth
of Operations Management and Supply Chain, with a moderate emphasis on
quantitative coverage. It covers relevant and current Operations
Management issues with a focus on economic and global economy, analytics
content that ties decisions to relevant data using math models, and
appropriate strategies to solve real world problems. This sixteenth
edition demonstrates what companies are doing to create a competitive
advantage in the marketplace and also provides students with a set of
more applicable skills and tools. Hot topics in business today that
relate to operations and supply chain management are reducing the cost
of supply chain processes, integration and collaboration with customers
and suppliers, sustainability, and minimizing the long-term cost of
products and processes. These hot topics are studied in the book to
clarify the "big picture" -- What these topics are and why they are
important to business today.