Operations is a core functional area of an organization, along with marketing, human resources and accounting. Operations management plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality of products and ...

Authors, Tom Seubert and Grant Vokey, explain how the newest edition of their book, Manufacturing Execution Systems: An Operations Management Approach, Second Edition, helps MOM practitioners ...

Faced with dynamic market changes and competitive threats, manufacturers are broadening their focus from execution within a single facility or factory, to orchestrating execution across the entire ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Today, automation/robotics original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) find themselves focusing ...

There are five main differences between service and manufacturing organizations: the tangibility of their output; production on demand or for inventory; customer-specific production; labor-intensive ...

Faculty in the Operations Department examine how firms design and manage their activities and resources to achieve their strategic goals. Through both theoretical and empirical research, the faculty ...

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The need for coordinating distributed manufacturing operations is greater than ever. Whether driven by the disappearance of inventory buffers as supply chain improvements kick in, because acquisitions ...

Professor Martin A. Lariviere joined the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 2000. Professor Lariviere's research has focused on applying economic analysis to operations management problems ...

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GS Microelectronics, Inc. (GSME) today announced its official launch as a global provider of Outsourced Semiconductor Manufacturing and Operations (OSeMO) services.