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The fifth edition text focuses on business situations, including prominent non-mathematical issues, the use spreadsheets, and involves model formulation and assessment more than model structuring. The text has three key elements: modeling, case studies, and spreadsheets. In addition to examples, nearly every chapter includes one or two case studies patterned after actual applications to convey the whole process of applying management science.
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Introduction to Management Science A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets
The McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Beckman and Rosenfield, Operations, Strategy: Competing in the 21st Century, First Edition Benton, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Second Edition Bowersox, Closs, Cooper, and Bowersox Supply Chain Logistics Management, Fourth Edition Brown and Hyer, Managing Projects: A Team-Based Approach, First Edition Burt, Petcavage, and Pinkerton, Supply Management, Eighth Edition Cachon and Terwiesch, Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management, Third Edition Cooper and Schindler, Business Research Methods, Eleventh Edition Finch, Interactive Models for Operations and Supply Chain Management, First Edition Fitzsimmons and Fitzsimmons, Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology, Seventh Edition Gehrlein, Operations Management Cases, First Edition Harrison and Samson, Technology Management, First Edition Hayen, SAP R/3 Enterprise Software: An Introduction, First Edition
Hill, Manufacturing Strategy: Text & Cases, Third Edition
Seppanen, Kumar, and Chandra, Process Analysis and Improvement, First Edition
Hopp, Supply Chain Science, First Edition
Simchi-Levi, Kaminsky, and Simchi-Levi, Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, Case Studies, Third Edition
Hopp and Spearman, Factory Physics, Third Edition Jacobs, Berry, Whybark, and Vollmann, Manufacturing Planning & Control for Supply Chain Management, Sixth Edition Jacobs and Chase, Operations and Supply Management: The Core, Third Edition Jacobs and Chase, Operations and Supply Management, Fourteenth Edition Jacobs and Whybark, Why ERP?, First Edition Larson and Gray, Project Management: The Managerial Process, Fifth Edition Leenders, Johnson, Flynn, and Fearon, Purchasing and Supply Management, Thirteenth Edition Nahmias, Production and Operations Analysis, Sixth Edition Olson, Introduction to Information Systems Project Management, Second Edition Schroeder, Goldstein, and Rungtusanatham, Operations Management: Contemporary Concepts and Cases, Sixth Edition
Sterman, Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for Complex World, First Edition Stevenson, Operations Management, Eleventh Edition Swink, Melnyk, Cooper, and Hartley, Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain, Second Edition Thomke, Managing Product and Service Development: Text and Cases, First Edition Ulrich and Eppinger, Product Design and Development, Fourth Edition Zipkin, Foundations of Inventory Management, First Edition QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Hillier and Hillier, Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets, Fifth Edition Stevenson and Ozgur, Introduction to Management Science with Spreadsheets, First Edition
Introduction to Management Science A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets Fifth Edition
Frederick S. Hillier Stanford University
Mark S. Hillier University of Washington Cases developed by
Karl Schmedders University of Zurich
Molly Stephens Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: A MODELING AND CASE STUDIES APPROACH WITH SPREADSHEETS, FIFTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill/I