Operations Management
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Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core
F. Robert Jacobs, Richard B. Chase
2025 Release
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McGraw Hill Connect is an award-winning digital learning solution that enables students to attain better grades and allows instructors to improve course management. Connect Accounting provides an adaptive learning tool that help students target what they know and what they don’t know, while end-of-chapter problems provide challenging practice sessions.
Connect for Operations Management Features
Connect is McGraw Hill's course management and adaptive learning platform with ready-made course content, assessment and tools that integrate seamlessly with your own LMS. As an instructor, Connect is an end-to-end solution for your course, providing you with the ability to assign homework and online assessments whilst giving you detailed student analytics and progress reports.
SmartBook
The Smartbook tool integrated within Connect maximises learning by helping students study more efficiently, highlighting the most important points in the chapter, asking verification questions and indicating additional resources.
More personalised - SmartBook constantly adapts to students' needs, creating a personalised learning experience.
More productive - SmartBook creates an extremely productive learning experience, focusing students' attention on the concepts they need to learn.
More prepared - SmartBook helps students prepare for lessons, allowing you to use class time more dynamically.
Algorithmic Questions
Algorithmic questions are auto-graded questions that allow students to practice the concept and apply theory, not just learn the numbers. Students use different numeric values each time a problem is provided which gives them the chance to practice working a problem several times – same question, but different numbers each time. This also deters cheating because each student in a class or lab receives a slightly different version of the problem and correct answer.
Assignable End of Chapter Exercises
Assignable and gradable end-of-chapter content helps students learn to apply Operations Management concepts and analyse their work in order to form key business decisions. Algorithmic questions allow students to practice problems as many times as they need, to ensure that they fully understand each problem.
Comprehensive Test Banks
Connect resources include a comprehensive test bank of various question types, which allow the instructor to create auto-graded assessment material with multiple problem types, algorithmic variation, and randomised question order.
Concept Overview Videos
Concept overview videos are assignable videos that correspond questions with crucial chapter topics. By reinforcing core learning goals, each video includes auto-graded concept-check questions that bring online courses to life. The videos are created by instructors, and are therefore unique, helping the student feel as though they are in the classroom, even if they are not.
Guided Examples
Examples are narrated and animated, with step-by-step walkthroughs of algorithmic versions of assigned exercises. These examples allow students to identify, review or reinforce the concepts and activities covered in classes. Availble on most Operations Management titles and providing immediate feedback provided, students can focus on the areas where they need the most guidance.
On-Location Videos
Featuring on-location video scenarios with real companies and their actual manufacturing processes. Operations Management On-Location Video Series brings topics of crucial operations management to life. All videos are matched to chapters topics within the text and are available within Connect.
Practice Operations
The 3D, interactive, game-based simulation allows students to manage the operations of a clothing manufacturing and distribution company. Practice Operations brings operations management to life. Enforcing key concepts while promoting critical thinking and strategic decision making, student will easily engage with this activity.
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Placing bids for contracts
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Managing physical and human resources
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Ordering raw materials
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Turning raw materials into refined clothing
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Shiping the final products to the client
The game is set up in a number of focused modules that deal with the issues of production process, capacity, supply chain, JIT, labor management, order fulfillment, customer satisfaction, and quality control. Give the game a try with the demo video here.
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