Stevenson, William J. <br/><br/>
Operations management / 
William J. Stevenson 
 - 9th ed. 
 - Boston :  McMcGraw-Hill Irwin,  c2007. 
 - xvi, 903 p. :  ill. (chiefly col.) ;  29cm 
 - The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series operations and decision sciences .
<br/><br/>Include bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction to operations management -- Competitiveness, strategy, and productivity -- Forecasting -- System design -- Product and service design -- Reliability -- Strategic capacity planning for products and services -- Decision theory -- Process selection and facility layout -- Linear programming -- Design of work systems -- Learning curves -- Location planning and analysis -- The transportation model -- Quality -- Management of quality -- Quality control -- Acceptance sampling -- Supply chain management -- Inventory management and scheduling -- Inventory management -- Aggregate planning -- MRP and ERP -- JIT and lean operations -- Maintenance -- Scheduling -- Project management -- Management of waiting lines -- Waiting lines -- Simulation. 
<br/><br/> Features the latest concepts and applications while not losing focus on the core concepts that has made this text a market leader. This approachable text supports students in applying concepts and methods by providing solved problems, examples, questions, practice problems, and cases 
<br/><br/><br/>eng. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780073041919  TZS 10,000/= 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Production management.<br/>Operations management
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.5 STE