Operations management by jay heizer 9th edition

The problems are coded on a 1, 2, 3, or 4-dot difficulty level. The chapters contain examples, which are reinforced by 66 end-of-chapter Solved Problems. Further, the student CD and text web site each contain over a hundred additional Practice Problems.

How do you prepare students for your exams? Do you recommend practice problems? Do you assign homework? What types of problems are important? Would you be interested in problems that progress in level of difficulty?

Do you grade homework? With dozens of options for randomizing the sequence, timing, feedback, and scoring,PearsonGrade Assist makes giving and grading homework and exams an easy task. With job opportunities moving from manufacturing to a more service driven economy, would you be interested in a book that has a better service integration? Throughout the text, the authors feature an extensive amount of service applications and firms to give students an in-depth look at operations in the real world.

All of these videos and cases appear in this edition as well as:. The 9 th edition introduces a new way to teach operations management problem solving by taking a pedagogical approach that walks the reader through each example. In each sample problem, the authors:. How do students study for tests? Do you typically create or provide them with a detailed study guide or practice test questions?

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Description For the core course in Operations Management. Examples: Pg. XX Solved Problems: Pg. XX How do you prepare students for your exams? Challenging Problems Expand the Range of Homework o This edition takes a 1, 2, 3-dot level of difficulty for each problem up a notch by increasing to a 1, 2, 3, 4-dot system with additional challenging 4-dot problems in each chapter.

XX Do you grade homework? All of these videos and cases appear in this edition as well as: New! New to This Edition. XX When your students are stuck on homework problems, where do they usually turn in the book for help? In each sample problem, the authors: 1 State The Problem; Pg. XX 2 Describe the approach to taking in solving it; Pg.

XX 3 Develop the complete and detailed solution; Pg. XX 4 Provide insight as to why this solution has relevance; Pg. The Rapid Reviews also include key chapter terms and a self-test, with questions linked to the learning objectives in the chapter. Its twenty-four modules can be used to solve most of the homework problems in the text.

Excel OM automatically creates worksheets to model and solve problems. Users select a topic from the pull-down menu, fill in the data, and then Excel will display and graph where appropriate the results. This software is great for student homework, what-if analysis, or classroom demonstrations.

Integrating Ethics: An Ethical Dilemma featured every chapter. This revision includes broad coverage of ethics as applied to operations management.

The topic is addressed in most chapters and an Ethical Dilemma feature appears at the end of each chapter, which can be used for classroom discussion or homework. Highlighting the Significance: Author Comments. To help students better understand key information and concepts, the authors have included Author Comments where they point out why a section, figure or a table is important.

New to This Edition. New Chapter: Sustainability in the Supply Chain. This new chapter Supplement 5 focuses on the central OM issue of sustainability and corporate social responsibility. This chapter, the heart of the supply chain coverage, provides an added emphasis on the topic, with new examples, graphs, tables, and problems. The chapter has sections that: 1 deal with the impact of corporate strategy on supply chain decisions; 2 relate supply chain strategy to sales strategy; 3 supply chain risks; 4 supplier evaluation and contracts; 5 distribution management; 6 sustainability in supply chains; and 7 the SCOR model.

We believe that this new organization will appeal to students and instructors with its flow and clarity. New Chapter Supply Chain Analytics.

This new chapter Supplement 11 , written by professor Chuck Munson of Washington State University, also expands the supply chain coverage by addressing four analytic approaches to evaluating supply chains: 1 disaster risk modeling; 2 managing the bullwhip effect; 3 supplier selection analysis; and 4 transportation mode analysis.

The topic of outsourcing which was the basis of Supplement 11 in the prior edition has been moved to Chapter 2, Operations Strategy in a Global Environment. This is the first text to include a chapter on this important analytic material. Jay and Barry's OM Blog. As a complement to this text, the authors have created a companion blog, with coordinated features to help teach the OM course.

There are teaching tips, highlights of OM items in the news along with class discussion questions and links , video tips, guest posts by instructors using our text, sample OM syllabi from dozens of colleges, and much more -- all arranged by chapter.

To brighten up any chapter topics, visit www. Table of Contents Part I. Introduction to Operations Management 1. Operations and Productivity 2. Operations Strategy in a Global Environment 3.

Project Management 4. Forecasting Part II. Designing Operations 5. Design of Goods and Services S5. Sustainability in the Supply Chain 6. Managing Quality S6. Statistical Process Control 7.

Process Strategy Capacity and Constraint Management 8. Location Strategies 9. Layout Strategies Managing Operations Supply-Chain Management S Supply-Chain Analytics Inventory Management Short-Term Scheduling Maintenance and Reliability Online Tutorials 1. Statistical Tools for Managers 2. Acceptance Sampling 3. The Simplex Method of Linear Programming 4. Vehicle Routing and Scheduling. Share a link to All Resources.

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