Connect - Your Study and Testing Program with e-book - is included with each new copy of the text. For more information, go to www.mcgrawhillconnect.ca
The Jacobs cover illustration might be considered symbolic or representative of the core as well as the supply flow. Just as lava flows from the core of the earth, operations and supply management is the core of business. Materials must flow through supply processes to create cash output and profits. In Operations & Supply Chain Management: The Core, Canadian Edition, Jacobs takes students to the centre of business and focuses on the core concepts and tools needed to ensure that these processes run smoothly.
The Canadian Edition of
The Core places an increased emphasis on supply chain management as well as attention to emerging trends and hot topics in Operations Management.
The use of applications through Canadian examples and real market situations helps students relate to OM concepts, while innovative technology, including Connect OM, supports student success in this course.
F. Robert Jacobs is Chase Faculty Fellow Professor of Operations Management at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering as well as Computer and Information Science, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Operations Management all from The Ohio State University.
Richard B. Chase is Justin B. Dart Professor of Operations Management at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Management, as well as an MBA and B.S. from UCLA
Jaydeep Balakrishnan is Professor of Operations Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He completed his doctorate in Operations Management from Indiana University. Prior to this he obtained an MBA at the University of Georgia, and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur University, India. Dr. Balakrishnan is certified in Production and Inventory Management by APICS-The Association for Operations Management