Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain is the first book to offer a global, supply chain perspective of operations management – a treatment that embraces the foundations of operations management but includes new frameworks, concepts, and tools to address the demands of today and changing needs of the future. It reflects three key shifts in operations management: 1. From a focus on the internal system to a focus on the supply chain 2. From a local focus to a global focus 3. From an emphasis on tools and techniques to an emphasis on systems, people, and processes

The Fourth Edition of Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain offers a global, supply chain perspective of operations management treatment that embraces the foundations of operations management but includes new frameworks, concepts, and tools to address the demands of today and changing needs of the future. We live in dynamic and exciting times due to many changes affecting nearly every aspect of business - including operations management. This fourth edition reflects key shifts in operations management. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.

Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain offers a global, supply chain perspective of operations management—a treatment that embraces the foundations of operations management but includes new frameworks, concepts, and tools to address the demands of today and changing needs of the future. We live in dynamic and exciting times due to many changes affecting nearly every aspect of business- including operations management. This third edition reflects key shifts in operations management. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.

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The Second Edition of Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain provides a global, supply chain perspective of operations management and in supply chain management courses that do not require an operations management prerequisite. The Second Edition explains familiar operations management topics as viewed through a supply chain management perspective and reflects key shifts in operations management, including transitions that demand new tools, concepts and approaches to address the demands and challenges business face today and will in the future. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.

"We continue to live in dynamic and exciting times. Recent years have seen many changes that have affected nearly every aspect of business, including operations management. In this fifth edition of our book, we continue to reflect key shifts in operations management, including transitions: From a focus on the internal system to a focus on the supply chain. In today's highly competitive business environment, organizations must leverage the capabilities of their suppliers and customers. Operations managers must look beyond the "four walls" of the firm and take an integrated supply chain perspective of operations. From a local focus to a global focus. As Thomas L. Friedman pointed out, the world is indeed flat. Business solutions generated in Argentina are used to meet needs in the United States, and parts built by suppliers located in China are used to assemble cars in Canada. Commercial needs have overcome, to a large part, national borders, presenting new opportunities and challenges for operations managers"--