For undergraduate Operations Management courses. A broad, practical introduction to operations, reinforced with an extensive collection of practice problems. Principles of Operations Management presents a broad introduction to the field of operations in a realistic and practical manner, while offering the largest and most diverse collection of problems on the market. The problems found in this text also contain ample support found in the book's solved-problems, worked examples, and myomlab, Pearson's new online homework and tutorial system to help students complete and understand assignments even when they're not in class.

The eighth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect operations management today and now features myomlab. For a more comprehensive version with a quantitative modules at the end of the text, see Heizer/Render's Operations Management, 10e.

Part 1 Introduction to Operations Management
- Introduction to Operations Management
- The Global Environment and Operations Strategy
- Managing Projects
etc.

Part 2 Designing Operations
- Product Design
- Quality Management and International Standards / Supplement 6: Statistical Process Control
- Process Design / Supplement 7: Capacity Planning
etc.

Part 3 Managing Operations
- Managing the Supply Chain / Supplement 11: Outsourcing as a Supply Chain Strategy
- Managing Inventory
- Aggregate Scheduling
etc.