Operations Management for Business Excellence: Building Sustainable Supply Chains

Business & Money

Gardiner, David

Reefke, Hendrik

Management & Leadership

Routledge

All businesses strive for excellence in today's technology-based environment in which customers want solutions at the touch of a button. This highly regarded textbook provides in-depth coverage of the principles of operations and supply chain management and explains how to design, implement, and maintain processes for sustainable competitive advantage. This text offers a unique combination of theory and practice with a strategic, results-driven approach. Now in its fourth edition, Operations Management for Business Excellence has been updated to reflect major advances and future trends in supply chain management. A new chapter on advanced supply chain concepts covers novel logistics technology, information systems, customer proximity, sustainability, and the use of multiple sales channels. As a platform for discussion, the exploration of future trends includes self-driving vehicles, automation and robotics, and omnichannel retailing. Features include: <ul> <li>A host of international case studies and examples to demonstrate how theory translates to practice, including Airbus, Hewlett Packard, Puma, and Toyota.</li> <li>A consistent structure to aid learning and retention: Each chapter begins with a detailed set of learning objectives and finishes with a chapter summary, a set of discussion questions and a list of key terms.</li> </ul> Fully comprehensive with an emphasis on the practical, this textbook should be core reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of operations management and supply chain management. It would also appeal to executives who desire an understanding of how to achieve and maintain 'excellence' in business. Online resources include lecture slides, a glossary, test questions, downloadable figures, and a bonus chapter on project management.

The Other End of the Rainbow

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Merilang Press

The Rainbow Man

Downstate, the first Irish-published poetry collection by David Gardiner, editor of the international journal, An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts. A writer, publisher, and professor, he divides his time between Omaha where he teaches Irish Studies at Creighton University and his duties in their Summer School Program at Trinity College Dublin. In 1995, he became founding editor of An Sionnach (Creighton University Press) and in 1996 he was made Director of Creighton University Press. "Author David Gardiner reflects wistfully on society and its reverence for its heritage; Downstate is a fine, insightful, and entertaining volume." The Midwest Book Review

Downstate

Poetry

Salmon Poetry

Danny, a teenager attending a Roman Catholic grammar school in Belfast in the 1960s, becomes seduced into the IRA out of an interest in amateur radio and all things technical. He is propelled unthinkingly into a terrifying Faustian bargain from which there is no escape.

Engineering Paradise

Parenting & Relationships

Genre Fiction

Independently published

Befitting Emblems of Adversity: A Modern Irish View of Edmund Spenser from W. B. Yeats to the Present.

In this volume, David Gardiner investigates the various national contexts in which Edmund Spenser's poetic project has been interpreted and represented by modern Irish poets, from the colonial context of Elizabethan Ireland to Yeats' use of Spenser as an aesthetic and political model to John Montague's reassessment of the reciprocal definations of the poet and the nation throughout reference to Spenser. Gardiner also includes analysis of Spenser's influence on Northern Irish poets. The afterword on the work of Thomas McCarthy, Sean Dunne, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, among others, discusses how Montague's reinterpretation of Spenser influeneced this most recent generation of Irish poets.

History & Criticism

Creighton University Press

In "Befitting emblems of adversity," David Gardiner investigates the various national contexts in which Edmund Spenser's poetic project has been interpreted and represented by modern Irish poets, from the colonial context of Elizabethan Ireland to Yeat's use of Spenser as an aesthetic and political model to John Montague's reassessment of the reciprocal definitions of the poet and the nation throughout reference to Spenser. Gardiner also includes analysis of Spencer's influence on Northern Irish poets. And an afterword on the work of Thomas McCarthy, Sean Dunne, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, among others others, discusses how Montague's reinterpretation of Spenser influenced this most recent generation of Irish poets.

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