ISE Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core

F. Robert Jacobs is Chase Faculty Fellow Professor of Operations Management at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering as well as Computer and Information Science, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Operations Management all from The Ohio State University.  Richard B. Chase is Director of the Center for Operations Management Research and Education at USC. He is widely published in both books and academic journals and is considered one of the top service "gurus" in the field. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Operations Management, an Advisor to Production and Operations Management journal, and a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Operations and Supply Chain Management
Ch. 2 Strategy and Sustainability
Ch. 3 Forecasting
Ch. 4 Strategic Capacity Management
Ch. 4a Learning Curves
Ch. 5 Projects
Ch. 6 Manufacturing Processes
Ch. 6a Break-Even Analysis
Ch. 7 Service Processes
Ch. 8 Sales and Operations Planning
Ch. 9 Material Requirements Planning
Ch. 10 Quality Management and Six Sigma
Ch. 11 Inventory Management
Ch. 12 Lean Supply Chains
Ch. 13 Global Sourcing and Procurement
Ch. 14 Location, Logistics, and Distribution

Appendix A: Linear Programming Using the Excel Solver
Appendix B: Answers to Selected Objective Questions
Appendix C: Present Value Table
Appendix D: Negative Exponential
Appendix E: Areas of the Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution