Operations Management: Contemporary Concepts and Cases

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Esta versión "internacional" es inferior en calidad y contenido al ya clásico del profesor Roger Schroeder (Operations Management). En esta edición, se prima el estudio on-line donde se pueden conseguir más detalles de las empresas analizadas como ejemplo de cada uno de los capítulos. Pero al tiempo, se ha perdido el detalle que tuvo su otra versión (Operations Management - Administración de Operaciones en el mundo hispano). En cualquier caso, la reducción de contenido, ha facilitado si cabe su lectura y la inclusión de nuevo material a partir de la utilización de hojas de cálculo hace si cabe más sencillos de seguir muchos de los ejercicios. El libro, sigue cubriendo la totalidad de elementos básicos necesarios para una correcta gestión de las Operaciones, incluyendo el sector Servicios, por la herencia de su anterior versión sigue manteniendo su estatus de libro de referencia. Carlos Ortega 2006-01-30

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.

The book presents a very interesting and didactic structure to study the production systems, with a matrix including the operations flow view (lineal, batch or proyect) and the order production system view (when specifications are defined by customer or defined by the producer). Also devotes a chapter to Service Operations reviewing different approaches. The content has a good balance between theory and practice/exercises, which is supported with bussines cases. In comparison with previous Schoreder book, it does not have the appendices (quantitative methods). I think it is right because there are other books devoted to quantitative methods or operations research topics. Maybe the book needs to develop the supply chain management topic (my comments are about this book first edition (2000)).