Managing Supply Chain and Operations: An Integrative Approach, 1st edition

Integrate pedagogy with concepts and practical applications

• The text is organized into four parts. The authors employ a four-part integrative model throughout the text that ties together the key functions of supply chain, operations, and customer relationship management that focuses on improving, innovating, and integrating in these areas.
• Each chapter has a defined set of learning objectives. AACSB requires faculty to identify learning objectives and they are provided in each chapter as an aid for faculty and students.
• End of chapter resources.

Provide Real, Hands-on Examples and Connections

• Opening vignettes introduce a problem or scenario that an actual company has encountered. At the end of the chapter, we discuss how that company used concepts from the chapter to address its needs. End-of-chapter vignettes also require assessment and application. These exercises provide students the skills they will need when they become managers.
• Each chapter spotlights current events and ties them directly to the chapter’s concepts. Students see how managers apply the information they are learning in the field. Every chapter has multiple SC&O Current Event boxes that make the material relevant to the students.
• Managing Across Majors boxes directly address how students in different majors and disciplines will use SC&O concepts upon graduation. Making a clear connection between the concepts and how students will use them reinforces their importance.
• Global Connections boxes focus on how SC&O management ties together supply chains across international boundaries. Learning how managers can use global supply chains and how international linkages benefit firms provides students an advantage once they enter the workforce.
• Tech Boxes walk students through the ways managers use technology to solve SC&O problems in the workplace. Step-by-step tutorials break down problems and solutions and provide computer-based fundamentals for SC&O problem solving.
• The text includes a video in MyOMLab for every solved problem in each chapter, allowing students to practice quantitative material prior to coming to class.

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