Russell and Taylor's Operations and Supply Chain Management, 9th Edition is designed to teach students how to analyze processes, ensure quality, create value, and manage the flow of information and products, while creating value along the supply chain in a global environment. Russell and Taylor explain and clearly demonstrate the skills needed to be a successful operations manager. Most importantly, Operations Management, 9th Edition makes the quantitative topics easy for students to understand and the mathematical applications less intimidating. Appropriate for students preparing for careers across functional areas of the business environment, this text provides foundational understanding of both qualitative and quantitative operations management processes.
As far as context it was an easy read, and had follow-through real world examples and applicable problems. However, it needs a good bit of editing. I found mistakes in every chapter. It was especially infuriating to find problems that didn't tie. And then there is the problem of their companion website. It's not very user friendly and the excel sheets would be more helpful if they were titled appropriately and applied to the problems in the book better.