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Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gerard Cachon, Christian Terwiesch
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Category: Book
Buy New: $86.95
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 9387
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Pages: 504
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0073525162
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.5
EAN: 9780073525167
ASIN: 0073525162
Publication Date: April 7, 2008
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Condition: Hardcover 2nd by Cachon.
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MATCHING SUPPLY WITH DEMAND by Cachon and Terwiesch is the most authoritative, cutting-edge book for operations management MBAs. The book demands rigorous analysis on the part of students without requiring consistent use of sophisticated mathematical modeling to perform it. When the use of quantitative tools or formal modeling is indicated, it is only to perform the necessary analysis needed to inform and support a practical business solution.
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Tackles complex issues simply, well integrated with course April 20, 2005
T. Viles (Philadelphia, PA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am an MBA student who has used this course book for our first year operations class. The book tackles difficult topics in a very easy to read way and is extremely well integrated with the associated case book and lecture notes. It provides the right level of detail, enabling students to pick up the tools or delve more deeply into the underlying mathematical constructs. The book does what it says on the label, teaching how to match supply with demand through analyzing process bottlenecks, queuing, lost customers, optimal inventory and yield management and supply chain management issues, such as the bull-whip effect and tackling double marginalization. This is a great introductory book to operations management.
A fun, useful and interesting book to learn operation mgmt April 18, 2005
Wei Wang (Mountain View, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am currently attending an MBA program and we are using this book in one of our operations classes. Highly recommend this book to schools and students who would like to learn how to solve the supply and demand problem!
First, this book is very easy to read. Throughout the book, the authors used different examples to illustrate the various challenges in realistic settings such as the patient waiting and serving time at the interventional radiology unit. The readers can easily extend and relate the examples in real life.
Second, this book is good for the classroom setting as well as the self study setting. The book is organized in a way that each chapter is focused on one operations management problem and shows the systematic ways to solve the problem. For self learner, one can easily select the topics and chapters of his/her interest.
Also, I found the summary at the end of each chapter especially useful for me. To prepare my exams, I use the summary of key notions and equations in each chapter to make up my "cheat sheet".
Again, "Matching Supply with Demand" is a great book and I highly recommend it.
Comprehensive, useful and very well written April 4, 2005
Jeff D. Harmer
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found this text book to be extremely helpful in understand and applying operations management. It includes a comprehensive introduction into topics like process flow, estimating and reducing labor costs, batching, the impact of variability, projecting uncertain demand, reactive capacity, risk pooling and several others.
More importantly, the models and examples used are not only practical, but actually interesting. Class discussions were drastically improved due to an increased interest in the cases. I'm sure it took a monumental effort to develop models and cases that make Operations Management interesting to the common student.
excellent April 3, 2005
C. Wachter
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Used this book in the core MBA course - excellent summary of class lectures & very helpful supplement.
Book of choice for operations management! April 2, 2005
Soo Yeon Kim
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A fantastic book for operations management!
The book cleverly combines real-life examples with relevant concepts to introduce core principles in operations managmenet.
It is well-organized, easy to understand,and highly relevant.
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