TY - GEN AU - Buffa,Elwood S. AU - Sarin,Rakesh K. AU - Sarin,Rakesh K. TI - Modern production/operations management T2 - Wiley series in production/operations management SN - 0471857823 U1 - 658.5 BUF 1987 PY - 1987/// CY - Singapore PB - John Wiley and Sons (WIE) KW - Management & Business: General KW - Production & quality control management KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control KW - Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management N1 - HB N2 - Provides a conceptual and analytical operations management framework for both manufacturing and service firms. The thrust of this new edition is more quantitative in approach and more comprehensive in its discussion of strategic issues. Provides treatments of multi-criteria decision methods, quality control, and operations strategy not found in other texts. Divided into four sections, the first convincingly demonstrates that the operations function is of paramount importance in the success of a firm. The second section presents quantitative models, and the third and final sections discuss the design of operations systems, advanced technologies, strategy, formulation and implementation UR - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471857823/chopaconline-20 UR - http://www.chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/azrev.pl?q=0471857823 ER -