Over 37 years, successive editions of this book have introduced more than one-half million students to the field and have attracted many people to enter the field for academic activity and professional practice. Many leaders in the field and many current instructors first learned about the field via an edition of this book. The extensive use of international student editions and translations in…
This third edition provides operations management students, academics, and professionals with a fully up-to-date, practical and comprehensive sourcebook in the science of distribution and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Its objective is not only to discover the roots and detail the techniques of supply and delivery channel networks, but also to explore the impact of the merger of SCM concepts an…
The third edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply chain and operations management (SCOM), combining value creation networks and interacting processes. It focuses on operational roles within networks and presents the quantitative and organizational methods needed to plan and control the material, information, and financial flows in supply chains. Each chapter begins with…
This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and risk-based modeling. Related topics such as maintenance decision-making and risk and safety modeling are also addressed with the implementation of decision-making techniques. The book provides real-life studies on industrial operations along with solutions. It d…
'Operations Research' provides a broad focus on algorithmic and practical implementation of Operations Research (OR) techniques, using theory, applications, and computations to teach students OR basics. The book can be used conveniently in a survey course that encompasses all the major tools of operations research, or in two separate courses on deterministic and probabilistic decision-making
A comprehensive treatment on the use of quantitative modeling for decision making and best practices in the service industriesMaking up a significant part of the world economy, the service sector is a rapidly evolving field that is relied on to dictate the public's satisfaction and success in various areas of everyday life, from banking and communications to education and healthcare. Service Sc…
Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman ; cases developed by Karl Schmedders and Molly Stephens ; tutorial software developed by Mark Hillier and Michael O'Sullivan.