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Managing Business Process Flows

Principles of Operations Management

by Ravi Anupindi, Sunil Chopra, Sudhakar D. Deshmukh

3rd Edition

Publisher: Pearson

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Book Details

Print ISBN9780136036371
eText ISBN9780133469639
PublisherPearson
Publishing Year2014
Edition3rd Edition
LanguageEnglish
Pages352

Managing Business Process Flows: Principles of Operations Management, 3rd Edition, is a textbook that presents a structured, data-driven methodology for understanding foundational operations management principles. The work illustrates how managers can design and control process structures and operational drivers to raise process performance.

Discussion addresses overarching process management, quantitative flow measurements, and strategies for handling flow variability. The textbook also explores process integration, highlighting lean operations and process synchronization.

Intended for graduate studies in business processes or operations management, this edition maintains the general process view framework. The presentation in each chapter is reinforced with contemporary examples from practice to assist student learning.

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1: Products, Processes, and Performance

  2. Chapter 2: Operations Strategy and Management

  3. Chapter 3: Process Flow Measures

  4. Chapter 4: Flow-Time Analysis

  5. Chapter 5: Flow Rate and Capacity Analysis

  6. Chapter 6: Inventory Analysis

  7. Chapter 7: Managing Flow Variability: Safety Inventory

  8. Chapter 8: Managing Flow Variability: Safety Capacity

  9. Chapter 9: Managing Flow Variability: Process Control and Capability

  10. Chapter 10: Lean Operations: Process Synchronization and Improvement

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