TY - BOOK AU - Waller,Derek L. TI - Operations management: a supply chain approach SN - 1861528035 (pbk.) : U1 - 658.5 21 PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Thomson Learning KW - Production management N1 - Previous ed.: 1998; I; Operations and strategic decisions --; 1; Positioning operations management and the supply chain --; 2; Strategy of organizations --; 3; Site selection --; 4; Quality management --; 5; An environmental balance --; II; Design in operations management --; 6; Design of the product --; 7; Process design and the operations network --; 8; Human resources in the system design --; 9; Design of the facility layout --; III; Planning and organizing --; 10; Forecasting: The trigger in the supply chain --; 11; Inventory management --; 12; Operations and capacity planning --; 13; Material requirements and enterprise resource planning --; 14; Operations scheduling --; 15; Lean production and just-in-time --; 16; Purchasing and subcontracting --; 17; Managing the integrated supply chain --; 18; Project management --; IV; System control and further analysis --; 19; Reliability and maintenance --; 20; Statistical quality control --; 21; Waiting lines --; 22; Theory of constraints --; 23; Decision making and risk --; 24; Linear programming --; 25; Financial analysis --; 26; Auditing the operations and supply chain --; 27; Statistical concepts ER -