Operations Management: Creating Value Along the Supply Chain

Russell and Taylor's Operations Management: Creating Value Along the Supply Chain, 7th edition is designed to teach students how to analyze processes, ensure quality, create value, and manage the flow of information and products, while creating value along the supply chain. Russell and Taylor explain and clearly demonstrate the skills needed to be a successful operations manager. Most importantly, Operations Management, 7th edition makes the quantitative topics easy for students to understand and the mathematical applications less intimidating. The production process and global supply chain of chocolate is used to introduce OM topics, and helps students see how all of the pieces of operations management fit together. Whether students continue on in service or manufacturing careers, with Operations Management, 7th edition students will have a foundational understanding of both qualitative and quantitative operations management processes.

About the Author :
BERNARD W. TAYLOR III is the Pamplin Professor of Management Science and Head of the Department of Business Information Technology in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginal Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. from the University of Georgia and a B.I.E. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of the book "Introduction to Management Science" (10th ed.) and co-author of "Management Science" (4th ed.). Dr. Taylor has published over 80 articles in such journals as "Operations Research, Management Science, Decision Sciences, IIE Transactions, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Computers and Operations Research, Omega, " and the "International Journal of Production Research, " among others. Roberta S. Russell is a Professor of Business Information Technology in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She received a Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, an M.B.A. from Old Dominion University, and a B.S. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Russell's primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of operations and supply chain management, service operations, scheduling, and quality. She has been published in "Decision Sciences, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Operations Management, IEEE Transactions, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, " and others.