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Managing Business Process Flows, 3rd edition

  • Ravi Anupindi
  • , Sunil Chopra
  • , Sudhakar D. Deshmukh
  • , Jan A. Van Mieghem
  • , Eitan Zemel

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For graduate level courses in Operations Management or Business Processes.

A structured, data-driven approach to understanding core operations management concepts.

Anupindi shows how managers can design and manage process structure and process drivers to improve the performance of any business process.

The third edition retains the general process view paradigm while providing a sharper, more streamlined presentation of the development of ideas in each chapter–all of which are illustrated with contemporary examples from practice.

Published by Pearson (October 7th 2021) - Copyright © 2012

ISBN-13: 9780137612512

Subject: Operations Management

Category: Advanced Operations Management

PART I: PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY

  • Chapter 1: Products, Processes, and Performance
  • Chapter 2: Operations Strategy and Management

PART II: PROCESS FLOW METRICS

  • Chapter 3: Process Flow Measures
  • Chapter 4: Flow-Time Analysis
  • Chapter 5: Flow Rate and Capacity Analysis
  • Chapter 6: Inventory Analysis

PART III: PROCESS FLOW VARIABILITY

  • Chapter 7: Managing Flow Variability: Safety Inventory
  • Chapter 8: Managing Flow Variability: Safety Capacity
  • Chapter 9: Managing Flow Variability: Process Control and Capability

PART IV: PROCESS INTEGRATION

  • Chapter 10: Lean Operations: Process Synchronization and Improvement