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Perspectives in Operations Management

Essays in Honor of Elwood S. Buffa

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  • © 1993

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  1. Rakesh K. Sarin

    1. Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Strategic Issues in Operations Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Creating Value Through Operations: The Legacy of Elwood S. Buffa

      • Morris A. Cohen, Paul R. Kleindorfer
      Pages 3-21

    3. Modelling in Support of Continuous Improvements Towards Achieving World Class Operations

      • Edward A. Silver
      Pages 23-44

    4. Design for Supply Chain Management: Concepts and Examples

      • Hau L. Lee
      Pages 45-65

    5. Competing Through Quality: Perspectives and Research Directions

      • Herbert Moskowitz
      Pages 67-86

    6. Service Quality Deployment: Quality Service by Design

      • Ravi S. Behara, Richard B. Chase
      Pages 87-99

    7. Strategic Role of Information in Services

      • James A. Fitzsimmons
      Pages 101-113

  4. Models for Production and Operations Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Multi-Product Co-Production in Manufacturing and Services

      • Gabriel R. Bitran, Sriram Dasu, Stephen M. Gilbert
      Pages 211-228

    3. Stockless and Fast Production: Review and Research Agenda

      • L. Joseph Thomas
      Pages 229-247

    4. Mathematical Models of Retailer Inventory Systems: A Review

      • Steven Nahmias, Stephen A. Smith
      Pages 249-278

    5. Recent Advances in Production and Distribution Management

      • A. Federgruen
      Pages 279-299

    6. Performance Management Issues in Flexible Manufacturing Systems: An Analytic Perspective

      • Abraham Seidmann
      Pages 301-320
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About this book

In the fall of 1992 a conference honoring Elwood S. Buffa was held at the Anderson Graduate School of Management of the University of California, Los Angeles. This book is a collection of the work presented at that conference. The scholars who gathered to honor El are the prominent researchers in the field of Operations Management. Their collective work published in this book represents the richness of the field and provides the reader with valuable insights into its important issues and problems. While any grouping of the articles by these distinguished scholars will be arbitrary, I have organized the book in four sections. In the first section the articles dealing with the strategic issues in Operations Management are compiled. The articles deal with continuous improvement, quality, services, supply chain management, and creating value through operations. The articles that explore the interface of Operations Management with other functional areas, e.g. engineering and marketing, are grouped in the second section. The third section of the book contains articles that attempt to model some important planning problems that arise in the management of production and operations. Some of the papers in this section provide state of the art reviews of selected topic areas. Finally, the fourth section contains articles that deal with future directions for Operations Management. The authors offer several insights into the future evolution of the field. The book begins with the keynote address given by El Buffa at the start of the conference on November 2, 1991.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

    Rakesh K. Sarin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perspectives in Operations Management

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Elwood S. Buffa

  • Editors: Rakesh K. Sarin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3166-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9263-7Published: 31 January 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6387-3Published: 09 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3166-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 493

  • Topics: Operations Management, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes

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