The secrets to improving operations while maintaining the highest quality How do you operate at maximum efficiency with minimum cost? Manager’s Guide to Operations Management addresses one of the most pressing business issues of our time by offering easy-toimplement advice on creating the most effective, streamlined operations possible. This quick-reference guide explains how to: Improve your production processes Boost quality using the Six Sigma approach Manage supply chains and inventory Forecast, plan, and schedule efficiently With Manager’s Guide to Operations Management, you have the tools you need to ensure a smooth, steady work flow while producing products and services of the highest quality—the secret to business success.

The study and practice of operations has shifted to reflect the new challenges and uncertainties of how to thrive in today's ever-changing world. The Operations Advantage identifies the most significant challenges to the practice of operations management and gives guidance on how businesses can respond. Leaders need to link the strategic objectives of the business clearly and logically to its operations performance objectives. The book presents a series of ten activities that will help them to do this and therefore make operations work better, such as designing and configuring internal processes and resourcing the operations appropriately. Based on the global teaching, training and consultancy conducted by the author, The Operations Advantage looks at the application of operations management across a range of sectors, including finance, healthcare, professional services, oil and gas industries. Although these diverse sectors require operations practitioners to apply knowledge in different ways, they essentially deal with the same set of processes. The book is an indispensable and unique guide for anyone with an operational role in any organization, as well as operations management students and academics.

As the title suggests, the book is providing a practical guidance on managing the processes for IT Services. There are lot of guidance available on technology management in IT industry but this book is focusing on technology independent service management. The book will be addressed to all IT people from a process practitioner perspective, however, the fundamentals are presented in simplistic terms, and therefore it should be useful to all IT people. It will describe the process engineering concept and how it can be applied to IT Service Management. This is not about the industry standard framework such as ITIL and COBIT but about the common processes that are generally used in real life operations. I will be using analogies and illustrations from non IT world also to make the things simple. This book does not focus on any technology.

The practical guide to using pricing and profitability management to build a better business A comprehensive reference for any business professional looking to understand the capabilities and competencies required for effectively managing pricing and profitability, Pricing and Profitability Management explains how to determine the right approach, tools, and techniques for each of six key categories (pricing strategy, price execution, advanced analytics and optimization, organizational alignment and governance, pricing technology and data management, and tax and regulatory effectiveness). Exploring each category in detail, the book addresses how an integrated approach to pricing improvement can give a sustainable, competitive advantage to any organization. The ultimate "how to" manual for any executive or manager interested in price management, the book presents a holistic, comprehensive framework that shows how integrating these pricing categories into a cohesive program leads to impressive gains that cannot be achieved through a single-pronged approach. Presents a comprehensive framework for more effectively managing pricing and profitability Identities the six key categories of pricing and profitability management Shows you how to gain a competitive edge by managing pricing and profitability Taking a comprehensive view of pricing, companies can position themselves to tap a vast source of shareholder value—the ability to set and enforce profitable prices, not just once, but again and again in response to marketplace changes and evolving business needs—and this book will show you how.

Think of the businesses and nonprofit organizations that you admire. What makes them so impressive? It's rarely a question of only marketing or finance. Excellent operations need to be in place if an organization is to meet and exceed the expectations of its customers.But what exactly is meant by "operations?" Operations include all the activities required by an organization to create goods or services and deliver them to the intended users or customers.There are many different methods of presenting the operations function and its many subfunctions. These vary between industries and organizations. In this course, the differences and complexities in operations management are minimized for the sake of simplicity.When customers walk into a shop and look at the products for sale, they probably aren't aware of the level of work that is involved in getting a product onto the shelf. They want to pay a fair price for the item and expect it to fulfill its purpose. Millions, if not billions, of similar transactions happen everyday as products are bought and sold.Each product's journey to the market has been strategically planned, revised, and supervised in great detail. This process is known as product and service management. It is a managerial approach that companies use to understand how best to develop new products and services, and manage existing and mature ones.The operations section of an organization deals with product and service management. How operations management interfaces with product and service management varies from organization to organization, depending on the industry and whether it's a product or service being produced.In this course, the complexities, differences, and nuances of product and service management, are presented in a deliberately scaled-back manner for instructional and training purposes.Product and service management has a key role to play in the operations management function. In addition, it often exerts influence on the marketing function.In an ideal situation, the idea for a new product will come from customers. Marketing will deliver the product concept to operations, where it will be designed, developed, and finally supplied to the market. Once the customer interacts with the product, marketing and sales become responsible for it again.To further your understanding of product and service management, this course covers the product and service life cycle, the development of new products, and how to manage existing and mature products.Operations and Supply Chain ManagementThe overall performance of a business can be determined by the effectiveness of its supply chain management. This is an integral part of operations management. It involves the coordination of multiple areas of business within a company in order to serve the market in the best possible manner. Supply chain management includes procurement, production operations - the actual production of goods - and logistics.There are several methods to illustrate supply chains that are related to services and products in an organization. These methods differ from organization to organization, as well as between manufacturing and service industries.All companies need to acquire and maintain inventory to produce their goods or to provide their services. These supplies enable the company to function. Inventory can be made up of raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods. Inventory levels have to be managed carefully. A company must always have the right levels of inventory at the right time.If a company has too much inventory, it ends up paying extra storage costs.But if the company has too little inventory, it may not be able to meet customer orders. Finding the balance between meeting customer demand and minimizing costs is crucial.

This textbook provides organisational leadership with an understanding of business process management and its benefits to an organisation. It provides a practical framework, complete with a set of tools and techniques, to successfully implement business process management projects.

This book discusses the practical and useful methods for operations management. It describes the ways the managers and employees need to accomplish their work. It discusses the administration, planning, strategy methods for the operations management. The book shows the operational environmental effects and causes. Operations project management is discussed with its trends, planning, implementation and leading. It focuses on the operational management of a firm or corporation. A discussion of the products and services of this operational management is accomplished. The Total quality management is described with the ISO 9000 and the operations financial management. The book could be unique because it could be a guide for managers and employees with practical consideration in how to make the job done, in operations fields. It concern in practical methods and procedures that could be followed, with some theoretical principals for general and operations management. It could cove the most important areas in operations sectors and departments. The overall people whom are interested in management could gain benefit from reading this book and from following what has this book proposed. Managers and employees could have a sufficient work ethics in the way they could deal with each others, and in dealing with different kind of different situations. These situations could be caused from internal audits, or from external environments. Managerial difficulties and complexities could be cleared and could be resolved with more simple and profession methods and procedures. I have decided to write this book because of the need to understand the formal and essential functions of Operations Management. The experiences that I have had from different functions in the operation sectors and departments could be helpful for readers to understand how operations work.

Operations Management for Executives reveals all that managers should know to be able to turn the operations of their companies into a source of competitive advantage. Understanding operations is key to improve how any organization actually works. In fact, excellence and innovation in operations have played an essential role in many of the great success business stories of our time: Zara, Ikea, Dell, Amazon, Toyota, Alibaba. In this book, the authors explain operations management from a general management standpoint. They provide a practical guidebook focused on: •Understanding the key concepts and methodologies •Avoiding unnecessary technicalities•Analyzing the impact of operations in all areas of a company•Revealing key levers to help managers realize the full potential of their companies. This book covers traditional areas in operations management, such as process design, capacity analysis, inventory management and queueing theory, or quality management. In addition, you’ll find advanced topics such as lean management, procurement, supply chain management, as well as aspects that are seldom addressed in other operations books, such as project management, human and organizational factors in operations, and operations innovation.

Practical Guide To Operations Management This book discusses the practical and useful methods for operations management. It describes the ways the managers and employees need to accomplish their work. It discusses the administration, planning, strategy methods for the operations management. The book shows the operational environmental effects and causes. Operations project management is discussed with its trends, planning, implementation and leading. It focuses on the operational management of a firm or corporation. A discussion of the products and services of this operational management is accomplished. The Total quality management is described with the ISO 9000 and the operations financial management. The book could be unique because it could be a guide for managers and employees with practical consideration in how to make the job done, in operations fields. It concern in practical methods and procedures that could be followed, with some theoretical principals for general and operations management.