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Dedication
To Jenni, Derek, Rachel, and Sarah, who make my life so full!
Morgan Swink
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Morgan Swink
is Professor, Eunice and James L. West Chair of Supply Chain Management, and
Executive Director of the Center for Supply Chain Innovation at the Neeley School of
Business, Texas Christian University. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from
Southern Methodist University, an MBA from the University of Dallas, and a PhD in
Operations Management from Indiana University. Before becoming a professor, Dr.
Swink worked for 10 years in a variety of manufacturing and product development
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positions at Texas Instruments Incorporated. He has co-authored three books and
published over 75 articles in a variety of academic and managerial journals. Dr. Swink
is formerly the Co-Editor in Chief for the Journal of Operations Management and past
president of the Decision Sciences Institute.
Steven A. Melnyk
is Professor of Operations Management at Michigan State University. Dr. Melnyk
obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Windsor and his doctorate
from the Ivey School of Business, the University of Western Ontario. He has
coauthored 21 books focusing on operations and the supply chain and has published
over 90 refereed articles in numerous international and national journals. He is
Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Logistics. He also is a member of several
editorial advisory boards, including the International Journal of Production Research
and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management. Dr. Melnyk
has consulted with over 60 companies. He has also served as a member of the APICS
Board of Directors (2014–2016) and the APICS leadership team (2015). In 2017, Dr.
Melnyk accepted a joint appointment as the Global Innovation Chair in Supply Chain
Management at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
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Courtesy of Janet L. Hartley
Janet L. Hartley
is Professor at the Department of Management at Bowling Green State University. She
received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and
the MBA and PhD degrees in Business Administration from the University of
Cincinnati. Prior to graduate school, she developed new products and designed new
manufacturing processes for the Clorox Company. She has published over 30 articles on
supply management and supply chain management. She serves as an Associate Editor
for the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of
Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Operations and Production
Management, and Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. Dr. Hartley is
president-elect of the Decision Science Institute.
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Preface
We continue to live in dynamic and exciting times. Recent years have seen many
changes that have affected nearly every aspect of business, including operations
management. In this fourth edition of our book, we continue to reflect key shifts in
operations management, including transitions:
From a focus on the internal system to a focus on the supply chain. In today’s
highly competitive business environment, organizations must leverage the
capabilities of their suppliers and customers. Operations managers must look beyond
the “four walls” of the firm and take an integrated supply chain perspective of
operations.
From a local focus to a global focus. As Thomas L. Friedman pointed out,1 the
world is indeed flat. Business solutions generated in Argentina are used to meet needs
in the United States, and parts built by suppliers located in China are used to
assemble cars in Canada. Commercial needs have overcome, to a large part, national
borders, presenting new opportunities and challenges for operations managers.
From an emphasis on tools and techniques to an emphasis on systems, people,
and processes. To be successful, operations managers must think more broadly than
just the application of analytical tools and techniques. They must take a systems view
to address important managerial issues such as designing processes, working with
people, managing information flows, and building interorganizational relationships.
From myopic pursuit of profit to a holistic pursuit of sustainability. Pressures on
businesses have risen to the point that they can no longer ignore or give only
lipservice to social and environmental issues. Operations managers have to balance
the profit motive with the need to protect and even strengthen both people and the
planet.
From a static to a dynamic treatment of operations and supply chain
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management. We have revised each new edition to keep pace with changes taking
place in the field. In recent years, very evident changes include the emergence of
millennials as key consumers and the rapid developments taking place in digital
technologies. Consequently, in this edition, we introduce a new theme: digital. While
the basics remain the same, the context in which operations are managed continues to
change rapidly.
Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain provides a global, supply chain
perspective of operations management for students in introductory courses in operations
management and in supply chain management courses that do not require an operations
management prerequisite. While the book is primarily written for undergraduates, it also
can be used effectively in MBA courses. There are several features that help to
differentiate this book in its view of operations management:
Broader Vision of Operations Management While many operations management
textbooks have revised or added a chapter to address supply chain issues, we
developed our book from the ground up to effectively integrate operations
management and the supply chain. The primary focus of the book is operations
management, but we provide a “supply chain” perspective. Operations management
cuts across a firm’s boundaries, bringing together its internal activities with the
operations of customers, suppliers, and other partners around the world. We clarify
the functional roles of operations, supply management, and logistics while examining
the integrative processes that make up the supply chain. One unique aspect of the
book is that we examine both the upstream (supply-side) and downstream (demand-
side) aspects of the supply chain, including a discussion of marketing and customer
relationships.
Balanced Treatment The book balances the quantitative and qualitative coverage
needed to equip operations and supply chain managers for the challenges and
opportunities they face. It describes and applies analytical tools that operations
managers use to support decision making. However, we also address the important
managerial issues such as systems, people, and processes that are critical in a supply
chain context.
Integrative Frameworks The book introduces and develops various topics in supply
chain operations management using five integrative frameworks:
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1. An operations strategy framework that brings together three critical elements: (1)
the key customer, (2) the value proposition, and (3) capabilities, introducing
students to a broad supply chain perspective of operations management.
2. A foundations framework that covers process fundamentals, innovation, quality,
inventory, and lean thinking.
3. A relational framework that highlights functional, supplier, and customer
management aspects of operations management.
4. A planning framework that covers demand and supply planning at multiple levels.
5. A change management framework that illustrates how projects and future
developments can be used to drive innovation in operations management.
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Use of Integrating Themes Four key themes are highlighted throughout the book:
digital transformation, global issues, relationships, and sustainability.
Real, Integrated Examples The book brings operations and supply chain
management to life through opening vignettes, Get Real highlights, and rich
examples throughout the book.
Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain, fourth edition, offers a new, global,
supply chain perspective of operations management, a treatment that embraces the
foundations of operations management but includes new frameworks, concepts, and
tools to address the demands of today and changing needs of the future. The book is
organized into five major sections:
Part 1 Supply Chain: A Perspective for Operations Management provides an
overview of operations management as a field, and describes the strategic role
operations has in business from the perspective of supply chain management.
Part 2 Foundations of Operations Management discusses foundational process
concepts and principles that govern all operational activities. This section examines
concepts such as product/process innovation, quality, lean, and inventory
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fundamentals.
Part 3 Integrating Relationships Across the Supply Chain deals with the primary
functional relationships between internal operations management activities, and other
operational functions both inside and outside the firm. This section describes
customer relationship management, supply management, and logistics management.
Part 4 Planning for Integrated Operations Across the Supply Chain discusses
planning approaches and technologies used at different levels of operations decision
making. Key topics such as demand planning, forecasting, sales and operations
planning, inventory management, and materials requirements planning are examined.
Part 5 Managing Change in Supply Chain Operations discusses how operations
managers use projects, change programs, and technologies to shape a sustainable
future for operations and supply chain management.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain
Introduced digital theme with examples illustrating how technologies are changing
operational processes.
Replaced example (now a restaurant supply chain) of functional relationships across
the supply chain.
Added new Cemex Digital Transformation case.
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Expanded alternative process mapping approaches with the expanded coverage of
techniques such as service blueprinting.
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Chapter 9: Customer Service Management
New opening vignette on the “Amazon Effect.”
New discussion of digital enhancement of customer service including omnichannel
service, product platforms, and crowdsourcing service.
New discussion of social (millennials) and global impacts on customers’ service
expectations.
New Get Real on service delivery failures.
New section on service information.
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New discussions of social media and dynamic pricing in demand management.
1Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus,
and Giroux, 2006).
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Acknowledgments
We would like to express our appreciation to the people who have provided assistance
in the development of this textbook. We express our sincere thanks to the following
individuals for their thoughtful reviews and suggestions:
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Rosa Oppenheim, Rutgers University
Samuel Chinnis, Guilford Technical Community College
Sandra Obilade, Brescia University
Stephen Hill, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
William Sawaya, Bowling Green State University
Xiaowen Huang, Miami University, Ohio
Yao Jin, Miami University
We also want to express our sincere thanks to the following individuals for their
exceptional contributions: Katherine Eboch, Bowling Green State University; William
Berry, Professor Emeritus, Queens College; David Weltman, Texas Christian
University; Frank Novakowski, Davenport University; and Jody Wolfe, Clarke
University.
We want to thank the outstanding McGraw-Hill Education production and
marketing team who made this book possible, including Harper Christopher, executive
marketing manager; Chuck Synovec, director; Tim Vertovec, managing director; Fran
Simon and Jamie Koch, content project managers; Sandy Ludovissy, buyer; Kevin
Moran, digital content development director; Egzon Shaqiri, designer; and Ann Marie
Jannette, content licensing specialist.
A special thanks to our outstanding editorial team. We greatly appreciate the
support, encouragement, and patience shown by Tobi Philips, our product developer.
Thanks for keeping us on track! Our portfolio manager, Noelle Bathurst, provided
excellent guidance and leadership throughout the process. We truly appreciate it!
Morgan Swink
Steven A. Melynk
Janet L. Hartley
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Walkthrough
The following section highlights the key features of Managing Operations Across the
Supply Chain and the text’s accompanying resources, which have been developed to
help you learn, understand, and apply operations concepts.
CHAPTER ELEMENTS
Within each chapter of the text, you will find the following elements. All of these have
been developed to facilitate study and learning.
Opening Vignette
Each chapter opens with an introduction to the important operations topics covered in
the chapter. Students need to see the relevance of operations management in order to
actively engage in learning the material. Learning objectives provide a quick
introduction to the important operations topics that will be covered in the chapter.
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Key Terms
Key terms are presented in bold and defined in the margin as they are introduced. A list
of chapter key terms is also available at the end of the chapter.
Student Activity
At appropriate moments students are asked to do a personal activity that illustrates the
concept being presented or covered, thereby helping them learn to apply the concepts
and understand them more deeply.
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Numbered Examples
Numbered examples are integrated into chapters where analytic techniques are
introduced. Students learn how to solve specific problems step-by-step and gain insight
into general principles by seeing how they are applied.
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lodges. When we observed that the nearest timber to the site of the
village was two or three miles off, and that they have no beasts of
burden, but that all the building material, much of which is very
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women, it seemed almost incredible to us. We noticed even girls of
12 to 14 years bearing baskets on their backs, filled with wet turf, to
cover or repair their lodges, which must have been very heavy. Thus
early the females are trained to carry burdens (either at home or
while travelling), which inures them to hardships, but at the same
time deforms them, rendering them low and bent in stature, and
pitiable objects to the beholder. While the men, trained to no work
whatever, are erect, tall and well-proportioned in their form, and
almost feminine in their features, the women are short and low, with
stooping gait, downcast looks, harsh features, and hair dishevelled;
and dirty, ragged, and filthy in their appearance. Such is a picture of
heathenism! Have we not cause to be grateful for the benign
influence of the gospel upon our land, so that we are elevated far
above such a miserable state of heathenism? Unto the Lord be all
the praise!
Though it is generally a feature among heathen nations, that it is
considered a shame for the men to labor, while all the work devolves
upon the females, still the Pawnees seem not altogether indisposed
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the Pawnees had already commenced the use of the plough. The
good beginning was, however, interrupted by their missionaries
having to leave them.
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piece of cloth, fastened around the middle. This, we observed, was
generally the only covering they had on, when in their lodges. When
abroad, they had a buffalo robe or blanket wrapped around them.
The females are more decently clothed than the men. Their dress
consists of leggings, generally made of scarlet cloth, over which a
piece of blue or brown woolen cloth is tied around the waist, the
ends lapping over each other and extending a little below the knees.
The upper dress consists of a shirt, or short gown, made of calico,
reaching to the middle. Over the whole a blanket or robe is slung,
above which, on the back, may frequently be discovered the black
sparkling eyes of a little “papoose” peering forth.
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dwindling away from the demoralizing and debasing effects of
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when a tribe takes a bold stand against the introduction of this
destructive poison. The Pawnees allow none to be brought into their
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