Operations Management. (2005). In
N. S. Slack & M. Lewis, (Eds.), Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Management. vol. 10.
Two to five page essays on OM includes definitions,
processes, samples and charts. Accompaniying
Encyclopedia of Optimization. (2001) ed. C.A. Floudas
and P.M. Pardalos. QA402.5 .E45 2001 vol. 1--3.
Reference.
Provides in-depth articles with formulas and analysis
for optimization problems. Selected contents:
Minimum Cost Flow Problem, Multicommodity Flow Problems,
Inventory Management in Supply Chains
Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science.
(2001) ed. Saul I Gass and Carl M. Harris.
T57.6 .E53 2001 Reference (earlier ed. in stacks)
Good place to start. Signed articles with references to additional
sources on all aspects of OR and MS. You will find short
articles, with table, formulas, and graphs. Selected topics:
Planning and design phases for automation, bidding models
for auction designers, inventory modeling, manufacturing,
queuing theory, retailing including analysis of movement of
customers, supply chain management.
Global Cases in Benchmarking : Best Practices from
Organizations Around the World (1998) ed. Robert C.
Camp. HD62.15.G558 1998.
Divided by industry sectors--Manufacturing, Service,
Nonprofit, Government and Education you will find many
examples of benchmarking. The organization of each
chapter discusses planning, processes often containing
flowcharts and formulas used, recommendations, and lessons
learned.
All
Business Databases
ABI Inform Global
(Proquest)
Includes: Decision Sciences (Latest year at HD30.23
D4), Industrial Distribution, Management science
(before 1999 only, latest years at HD28 .I453), Modern
Materials Handling, Production & Inventory Management
Journal
Factiva
Search Industry / E-commerce; Subject / Internet-Online Services.
Includes: Electronic Commerce News
Science Direct
Includes:
Journal of purchasing and supply management
Journal of operations management
Omega: international
journal of management science
Wiley InterScience
Includes:
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis,
Journal of Organizational Excellence,
Knowledge and
process management
ASQ (American Society
for Quality)
A professional organization dedicated to quality improvement
in all sectors of the economy including education and government.
Resources on process improvement, total quality management,
and benchmarking.
http://www.asq.org/index.html Quality Topics
A great place to start a search for quality topics such as
benchmarking, Six Sigma, Statistical Quality Control, and
quality topics in various industries--health, service, education,
food etc. These are bibliographies with recommendations
for articles, books and websites and other databases.
TOMI
(Twiggs Operations Management Index) http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/dt31/TOMI/index.html
INFORMS OR/MS
Resource Collection
The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science
resources web site. They have categories for company
examples of OR and MS, a journal list, newsgroups, and additional
resources, and job information.
http://www.informs.org/Resources/
