This managerially-based text emphasizes how operations management tools and techniques can be used in a strategic setting within the operations of a business. It employs real cases to illustrate key points. Markland is a service-oriented text that focuses on the global business environment.

Operations Management: Concepts in Manufacturing and Services

Business & Money

Markland, Robert E.

Davis, Robert A.

Vickery, Shawnee

Management & Leadership

South-Western College Pub.

This managerially-based text emphasizes how operations management tools and techniques can be used in a strategic setting within the operations of a business. It employs real cases to illustrate key points. Markland is a service-oriented text that focuses on the global business environment.

This text focuses on the major themes currently shaping the field of operations management: (1) international operations, (2) service operations, (3) quality and continuous improvement, (4) strategy, (5) use of computers and other technologies in OM, and (6) environmental issues.

This text focuses on the major themes currently shaping the field of operations management:  (1) international operations, (2) service operations, (3) quality and continuous improvement, (4) strategy,  (5) use of computers and other technologies in OM, and (6) environmental issues.

Operations Management: Concepts in Manufacturing and Services : Om Sheets : Excel Spreadsheet Problems

Sounderpandian, Jayavel

Vickery, Shawnee K.

South-Western Pub.

Use demand driven optimized inventory and replenishment to overcome your supply chain weaknesses, and deliver business-maximizing results Reviewing the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that you can attain a demand-driven supply, Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment provides a business look at why present inventory systems sub-optimize the supply chain and faulty replenishment processes lead to wasted time and effort. Straightforward and clearly written, this book allows readers to come away with a good understanding of why optimized inventory and replenishment helps overcome in-system weaknesses and deliver results. <ul>
<li>Discusses how multi-echelon inventory optimization and replenishment enables installed systems to go from a sequential, "islands of efficiency" approach to a systematic distribution system working as a complete network</li> <li>Provides case studies throughout</li> <li>Reveals how optimized inventory and replenishment delivers results across industry verticals</li> </ul>
With a historical view of the three major supply chain efforts of the last thirty years, this book discusses mathematical shortcuts set up in the transitional and supply chain management systems that make it very difficult for companies to attain supply chain excellence.

Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment: Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain

wiley

Remove built-in supply chain weak points to more effectively balance supply and demand Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment shows how companies can support supply chain metrics and business initiatives by removing the weak points built into their inventory systems. Beginning with a thorough examination of Just in Time, Efficient Consumer Response, and Collaborative Forecasting, Planning, and Replenishment, this book walks you through the mathematical shortcuts set up in your management system that prevent you from attaining supply chain excellence. This expanded second edition includes new coverage of inventory performance, business verticals, business initiatives, and metrics, alongside case studies that illustrate how optimized inventory and replenishment delivers results across retail, high-tech, men's clothing, and food sectors. Inventory optimization allows you to avoid out-of-stock situations without impacting the bottom line with excessive inventory maintenance. By keeping just the right amount of inventory on hand, your company is better able to meet demand without sacrificing the cost-effectiveness of other supply chain strategies. The trick, however, is determining "just the right amount"—and this book provides the background and practical guidance you need to do just that. <ul>
<li>Examine the major supply chain strategies of the last 30 years</li> <li>Remove the shortcuts that prohibit supply chain excellence</li> <li>Optimize your supply/demand balance in any vertical</li> <li>Overcome systemic weaknesses to strengthen the bottom line</li> </ul>
Inventory optimization is benefitting companies around the world, as exemplified here by case studies involving Matas, PWT, Wistron, and Amway. When inefficiencies are built into the system, it's only smart business to identify and remove them—and implement a new streamlined process that runs like a well-oiled machine. Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment is an essential resource for exceptional supply chain management.

Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment (Wiley and SAS Business Series)

Does Religious Education Work?: A Multi-dimensional Investigation

This ground-breaking volume draws upon a rich and variegated range of methodologies to understand more fully the practices, policies and resources available in and to religious education in British schools. The descriptions, explanations and analyses undertaken here draw on an innovative combination of policy work, ethnography, Delphi methods, Actor Network Theory, questionnaires, textual analysis as well as theological and philosophical insight. It traces the evolution of religious education in a post-religious age from the creation of policy to the everyday experiences of teachers and students in the classroom. It begins by analysing the way in which policy has evolved since the 1970s with an examination of the social forces that have shaped curriculum development. It goes on to explore the impact and intentions of a diverse group of stakeholders with sometimes competing accounts of the purposes of religious educations. It then examines the manner in which policy is, or is not, enacted in the classroom. Finally, it explores contradictions and confusions, successes and failures, and the ways in which wider public debates enter the classroom. The book also exposes the challenge religious education teachers have in using the language of religion.

Religion & Spirituality

Baumfield, Vivienne

Lowden, Kevin

Gallagher, Tony

Barnes, L. Philip

Conroy, James C.

Lundie, David

Bourque, Nicole

Wenell, Karen

Religious Studies

Bloomsbury Academic

This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen's radical new visions for learning and teaching, adult and vocational pedagogy and social transformation are receiving fresh and global attention, Robert Davis and Frank O'Hagan place Owen's thought right at the heart of the Enlightenment advocacy of popular, democratic mass education. Tracing both the ancestry and the legacy of Owen's reforming spirit, they also offer a critical appraisal of the relevance of his ideas for the development of education at all levels and stages in the challenging contexts of international 21st century education.

Robert Owen (Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought)

Education & Teaching

O’Hagan, Frank

Schools & Teaching

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