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Operations Management: Contemporary Concepts and Cases |
Author: Roger G. Schroeder
Published: 2008-01 |
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Pretty good choice
The condition is good and the time to be delivered was just like promised before, in fact, the seller replied my email each time i asked question like is this really book that i want, ISBN, the year, edition and so forth.
Nice choice after all.
 Lacks direction
I purchased this book as it was required for an operations management class (undergrad). Therefore, because of this, I had no choice in the purchase. Having said that, the book itself is terribly written. It bolds words that it doesn't ever properly define--as if it expects you to know the meaning to begin with or wants you to try to muddle out the meaning from the poor context. It also refers back to those undefined words and says, 'As defined in the previous paragraphs.' It does not define those words in the back of the book either, leaving you with a vague feeling that the book should have been edited better or at least not cost quite so much. The greatest assumption in this book seems to be that you already knew the information, which is, of course, impossible if you have never taken any classes about operations management. In short, unless you are forced to purchase it, it is not worth reading.
A good supplementary text
Schroeder has written a very good broad,introductory text that can be effectively used in three different ways.The book can be used as an introduction to operations management for non business or liberal arts majors.The second way that the book can be used is as a supplement to the Knod-Schonberger book or the Stevenson book.The management case studies section at the end of the book is excellent .However, it is not recommended that this book be used as a core textbook in a formal operations management course in a business department curriculum unless the instructor intends to supplement the students reading with numerous technical handouts.For instance,a handout on basic cost-volume analysis must have already been digested by the student before he could make any sense out of the example or exercise problems in chapter 12(Facilities and Aggregate Planning). Shroeder may have assumed that the reader of his text will already have completely mastered many/most of the basic operations management tools and techniques.This should be the case in graduate level courses;the book would be a useful supplement in MBA courses.
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