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Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition
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Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

by Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
219h 58m
English
Pearson
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A Critique of PERT and CPM

As a critique of our discussions of PERT, here are some of its features about which operations managers need to be aware:

Advantages

  1. Especially useful when scheduling and controlling large projects.

  2. Straightforward concept and not mathematically complex.

  3. Graphical networks help highlight relationships among project activities.

  4. Critical path and slack time analyses help pinpoint activities that need to be closely watched.

  5. Project documentation and graphs point out who is responsible for various activities.

  6. Applicable to a wide variety of projects.

  7. Useful in monitoring not only schedules but costs as well.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780134422404