Download or read book MODERN PRODUCTION / OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, 8TH ED written by Buffa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market_Desc: Manufacture Managers and Executives. About The Book: The thrust of this edition is more quantitative in approach and more comprehensive in its discussion of strategic issues. It provides treatments of multi-criteria decision methods, quality control, and operations strategy not found in other texts. Divided into four sections, the first convincingly demonstrates that the operations function is of paramount importance in the success of a firm. The second section presents quantitative models, and the third and final sections discuss the design of operations systems, advanced technologies, strategy, formulation and implementation.