Operations Management & Student CD Package (8th Edition) [Hardcover]

Jay Heizer (Author), Barry Render (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 9, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0131554441 | ISBN-13: 978-0131554443 | Edition: 8

For the core course in Operations Management. Operations Management 8th edition delivers the best problems in the industry (ie. examples, solved problems, and homework problems). This comprehensive version features 17 core chapters and 6 quantitative modules. A briefer version is also available called Principles of Operations Management, 6e.

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From the Back Cover

This book provides readers with a state-of-the-art overview of operations management. The goal of this book is to show the fundamental principles of operations and how they relate to making a firm more competitive. Operations Strategy for Competitive Advantage, designing operations, managing operations, and quantitative modules (Only available in hardcover version). For individuals in production and operations management. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 784 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (July 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131554441
• ISBN-13: 978-0131554443
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #594,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Professional, interesting and comprehensive!, January 25, 1999

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Dr. Thomas M. Box (Pittsburg, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operations Management (Hardcover)

As someone who has taught Operations Management since Spring semester, 1980 following fifteen years in operations management in the steel industry, I've had the opportunity to review a large number of textbooks in this area. Without exageration, this is the most comprehensive, "user friendly" text that I have found. The illustrations, practice problems, power point slides and text book web site are great. Student comments have been very positive.

I strongly urge my colleagues who teach Operations Management to give this book a very serious look.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, most practical book at college education, May 7, 2006

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Akihiro Hano "student" (Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operations Management & Student CD Package (8th Edition) (Hardcover)

I am using this book for my business class. This book will teach you in-depth principles and skills on how you can manage business operations with a lot of mathmatical skills.

I feel that this book is great because it is very well organized and easy for readers to read. It has graphs and visual aids all over and CD materials for students to go through problems.

By learning this book, readers can not only gain the knowledge on business operation, but they can also have actual skills in operation management.

Buy this book if you are interested in this subject.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John LaCasse, February 26, 2008

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John Lacasse (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operations Management & Student CD Package (8th Edition) (Hardcover)

If taken as the authors and publishers intend this multi-media rendering has the qualitative breadth and scope to guide most anyone through the rational of operations management. The quantitative issue I have with most of the new academic print media, CD and internet combinations [as this is] is that they are designed for extended periods of intense study, which business schools compress into 8 or 16 weeks depending on the quarter / semester. The business student purchasing such as these must be prepared to hard scrabble through a tome of interconnected menu driven - and not always compatible - material which upon reflection reminded me of programming a television remote control. Who knows what will happen when the "play" button is struck.

From a time-certain curriculum management view, the book overreaches, as do the courses it tries to service; too much too fast, and after the third week of class, too late to be much other than a confusing backwater of aggregated material. The book becomes the "Telephone Operators Nightmare", too many calls and nowhere to plug-in the wires. This review, however, is more an admonishment toward academic curriculum managers than toward publishers like Pearson / Prentice-Hall, although they are mutually complicit in that one feeds upon the other.

All of this notwithstanding, the book is a "keeper" in the business library. In fact, I have recommended this book to business clients wanting to tweak their operations management. The book can be opened to any chapter, and the combined material will deliver to the highest expectations - given enough time.