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Abstract:

Discover how to apply engineering thinking and data analytics in your business operations.

This hands-on textbook shows, step by step, how to use the engineering problem-solving approach and data analytics techniques to drive effective tactical and control-level decision making in operations systems and supply chains. Operations Engineering and Management: Concepts, Analytics, and Principles for Improvement is based on the author's successful classes in both business and engineering. The book presents concepts and principles of operations management, with a strong emphasis on analytics and operations improvement. You will also get full details on the classic management approach to operations and supply chain management.

Coverage includes:

• Operations strategy

• Process-flow analysis

• Forecasting and variability

• Capacity concepts and measures

• Throughput improvement

• Flow time analysis and improvement

• Inventory management for deterministic and stochastic demand

• Inventory improvement

• Aggregate planning and lean operations

• Operations scheduling and flexible operations

• Quality management and control

• Quality improvement and Six Sigma

Author: Seyed M. R. Iravani