Operations Management

Whether you're a university or postgraduate student, a middle manager, senior management or CEO, an entrepreneur, or a professional seeking to leverage your Operations Management skills, this book is a guide as well as serving as a road map along your journey. It is designed to navigate as well as, illumi-nate the path to the achievement of your goals. Ultimately, the end result will be for the reader to be-come more insightful and nuanced when participating in a business organization and Enterprise's opera-tional processes, value and supply chains, capacity and inventory, in resource planning and in quality management. This is companion to Critical Thinking2 - A Force Multiplier (2024) which is a Primer on Problem Analysis and Decision-Making, and, the complementary Logical Fallacies, The Utility of Log-ic and Argumentation (2024). By the time you reach the final chapter, you will have gained a much deeper understanding of the use of quantitative methods, including simulation modeling in problem solving and strategy. Self-Test Questions and Exercises, and many case studies are found throughout. Chapters ten and elev-en, in particular, discuss neural networks and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will become central to business operations, closing the circle. The Epilogue presents the Production Possibility Frontier (PPF) as a special, unique topic; then, Five Appendices follow: Appendix 1, Glossary Of Operations Management Key Terms, Acronyms, And Jargon; Appendix 2, Formulas And Equations Operations Management; Appendix 3, Solving Opera-tions Management Problems; Appendix 4, Understanding Financial Statements Numbers And Ratios You Need To Know; and, Appendix 5, Case Studies Listing. This Book is a great introduction to furthering your business and management career and studies. The wisdom and lessons contained within can be utilized to supplement your life-long Learning, or just be a resource reference, for those aspiring to reach those lofty Management heights.