"Contemporary Issues and Research in Operations Management" ed. by Gary Moynihan

This book highlights some critical aspects and advances in the field of operations management. Topics covered include investigations in the area of sustainable supply chain management; the application of operations management (OM) principles to the deployment of field laboratories to address epidemics; and novel approaches to applying operations management in response to increasingly diverse requirements, circumstances, and performance criteria.

Operations management (OM) is the function concerned with the planning, design, implementation, and control of business operations in the production of goods and services. OM has expanded from its original factory-centric orientation to encompass the service industry and the respective, accompanying supply chains, with a broad, global range of applications, increasing reliance on quantitative analysis, and the development and the use of supporting computer-based information systems and technology.

Contents
1 Introductory Chapter: Background and Current Trends in Operations Management
2 Supplier Management in Service Industry: What can be Learned from Automotive Manufacturing?
3 Performance Measurement System Based on Supply Chain Operations Reference Model: Review and Proposal
4 Operations Management and Decision Making in Deployment of an On-Site Biological Analytical Capacity
5 Balancing Operational Services in Healthcare: An Indonesian Perspective
6 A New Model to Improve Project Time-Cost Trade-Off in Uncertain Environments
7 Systems Engineering: Enabling Operations Management