| | |  | General Improvement | Home » » » Manager's Guide to Operations Management (Briefcase Books) | | | | | | | Description: | | The secrets to improving operations while maintaining the highest quality How do you operate at maximum efficiency with minimum cost? Manager’s Guide to Operations Management addresses one of the most pressing business issues of our time by offering easy-toimplement advice on creating the most effective, streamlined operations possible. This quick-reference guide explains how to: - Improve your production processes
- Boost quality using the Six Sigma approach
- Manage supply chains and inventory
- Forecast, plan, and schedule efficiently
With Manager’s Guide to Operations Management, you have the tools you need to ensure a smooth, steady work flow while producing products and services of the highest quality—the secret to business success. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| John Kamauff | | Paperback:
| 272 pages | | Publisher:
| McGraw-Hill | | Publication Date:
| September 22, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0071627995 | | Product Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.32 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.66 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.78 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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Great Book. High level overview of lots of areas that are all books of their ownSep 30, 2011
By John L. Elder
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Really like this book. Went into a business bookstore looking generally and came out with this. Being in the Supply chain, Planning and SAP ERP world, this jumps a notch higher than a lot of the detail I find myself in and links a lot of areas together. Much of it I have read before in more detailed books like Lean and Forecasting, but this dips its toes in a lot of areas, and seems to have little gems in each. The only thing I have found lacking so far, is a bit more of the financial side, but having recently read "the new supply chain agenda" by Slone, Dittmann and Mentzer, that book has already opened up the finance side, so I am happy with what is in this book. I have not read any other books with "operations" in the title, so possibly there are other good ones as well, but having read lots of supply chain and ERP books, this one for me adds a lot.
For example.
Gets you interested in the topic. "Being an operations manager is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world"
Levers to pull
MBWA
I few insights that jumped out at me (I have only skim read bits of the book, and jumped in to the parts I am most interested in at the moment like scheduling.)
"There is a direct equivalence between work flow and cash flow". Sounds obvious now that I write it, but it felt new to me.
All the books have reasons to reduce inventory, but a few extra reasons to hold MORE inventory, like "to take advantage of prices before an announced or anticipated increase".
Great book if you happen to looking for an overview of operations that covers lots of areas with some seemingly smart ideas from someone who looks like he has been in the area for long enough to have picked up some gems.
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