Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

Developing Skills for Your Career

You can develop skills for your career by understanding how firms can meet their current and future challenges through a better design of its operating processes and supply chains. This textbook will help you achieve that goal, and become an effective manager even if your major lies in a functional area of business other than operations and supply chain management. The trends and challenges we identified earlier represent opportunities to improve existing processes and supply chains or to create new, innovative ones. The management of processes and supply chains goes beyond designing them; it requires the ability to ensure they achieve their goals. and maximize their competitiveness in the markets they serve. ...