Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core 6th INTERNATIONAL Edition by F. Robert Jacobs, ISBN-13: 978-1265076825

Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core 6th INTERNATIONAL Edition by F. Robert Jacobs, ISBN-13: 978-1265076825

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• Publisher: ‎ McGraw Hill; 6th edition (March 8, 2022)
• Language: ‎ English
• 545 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1265076820
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1265076825

The Sixth Edition of Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core focuses on the important core concepts in the dynamic field of operations. Just as lava flows from the core of the earth, operations and supply chain management is the core of business. Material must flow through supply chain processes to create cash output and input. This new edition has an increased focus on supply chain analytics involving the analysis of data to better solve business problems.

Jacobs The Core 6e focuses on the core concepts and tools needed to ensure business processes run smoothly and is designed to be lean and focused on the material sufficient for a 12-15 week course in Operations Management. It includes new exercises in Analytics , Supply Chain Improvement Models, new carbon footprint exercises, forecasting analytics and Inventory management exercises. New vignettes like in Ch. 2 featuring a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) of a large indoor farm, and Operations Management insights from the COVID-19 pandemic throughout provide valuable, engaging and relevant content for students learning Operations Management.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction to OSCM 2
Analytics Exercise: The Supply Chain
Improvement Model 20
2 Strategy and Sustainability 24
Analytical Exercise: The Carbon Footprint Quiz 43
3 Forecasting 46
Analytics Exercise: Forecasting Supply Chain
Demand—Starbucks Corporation 91
Analytical Exercise: Forecasting Demand at
Sebastian River Farms 92
4 Strategic Capacity Management 94
4a Learning Curves 116
Analytical Exercise: Tesla’s Model 3 Learning
Curve 128
5 Projects 130
Analytics Exercise: Product Design Project 168
6 Manufacturing Processes 170
Analytics Exercise: Designing a Manufacturing
Process 199
6a Break-Even Analysis 202
7 Service Processes 206
Analytics Exercise: Processing Customer
Orders 239
8 Sales and Operations Planning 242
Analytics Exercise: Developing an Aggregate
Plan—Bradford Manufacturing 265
9 Material Requirements Planning 268
Analytics Exercise: An MRP Explosion—Brunswick
Motors 300
10 Quality Management and Six Sigma 302
Analytics Exercise: Quality Management—Tesla 349
11 Inventory Management 352
Analytics Exercise: Inventory Management at
Big10sweaters.com 396
Analytics Exercise: Inventory Control at Sebastian
River Farms 399
12 Lean Supply Chains 402
13 Global Sourcing and Procurement 434
Analytics Exercise: Global Sourcing Decisions—
Grainger: Reengineering the China/U.S. Supply
Chain 457
14 Location, Logistics, and Distribution 460
Analytics Exercise: Distribution Center Location 482
APPENDICES
A Linear Programming Using the
Excel Solver 485
B Answers to Selected Objective
Questions 508
C Present Value Table 510
D Negative Exponential Distribution:
Values of e−X 511
E Areas of the Cumulative Standard Normal
Distribution 512
AUTHOR INDEX 513
SUBJECT INDEX 514

F. Robert Jacobs – Professor Emeritus of Operation and Decision Technologies, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University.

Professor Jacobs is the author of three textbooks for McGraw-Hill including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Operations and Supply Management-The Core, and Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management. His PhD is from The Ohio State University and was at Indiana University for over 30 years. He taught in the PhD, MBA and undergraduate programs at the school. He recently has taught in programs in Germany and Croatia.

He is past president of the Decision Sciences Institute and has served on the Board of Directors of APICS – The Association for Operations Management. Over the years he has won many awards for innovation and teaching excellence.

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