For undergraduate Operations Management courses.This Global Edition has been edited to include enhancements making it more relevant to students outside the United StatesA broad, practical introduction to operations, reinforced with an extensive collection of practice problems. Operations Management presents a broad introduction to the field of operations in a realistic and practical manner, while offering the largest and most diverse collection of problems on the market. The problems found in this text also contain ample supportfound in the books solved-problems, worked examples, and myomlab, Pearsons new online homework and tutorial systemto help students complete and understand assignments even when theyre not in class.  For a briefer version without the business analytic modules at the end of the text, see Heizer/Renders Principles of Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, 9e. (Pearson)