July 2023
Intermediate to advanced
164 pages
5h 42m
English
book
Essential Guide to Operations Management, 2nd Edition
by David Bamford, Paul Forrester, Iain Reid
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Index
Note: Bold page numbers indicate tables and italic numbers indicate figures.
- 80/20 rule 62
- acceptance sampling 117
- agile systems 76–77, 77
- Asia, alternative theories originating from 12
- AS-IS maps 27
- asset specificity 87
- autonomous group working 25
- Barney, J. 88
- batch sizing 67
- behaviouralist theories and approaches 11
- behavioural operations 24–25, 53
- bills of materials (BOM) 65, 66, 67
- blockchain technology 95–96
- bottlenecks, management of 62
- bounded rationality 87
- Burns, T. 34
- business intelligence 45–46
- business model canvas 104, 104
- business process reengineering (BPR) 26–27
- buyer-supplier relationships 90–92, 91, 116–117
- capacity planning: aggregate planning
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