Key Terms

operations management (OM) 3

role of operations management 3

value added 5

efficiency 5

manufacturing organizations 5

service organizations 5

strategic decisions 9

tactical decisions 9

Industrial Revolution 12

scientific management 13

Hawthorne studies 14

human relations movement 14

management science 14

just-in-time (JIT) 15

total quality management (TQM) 15

reengineering 16

flexibility 16

mass customization 16

time-based competition 16

supply chain management (SCM) 16

global marketplace 18

sustainability 18

business-to-business (B2B) 19

business-to-customers (B2C) 19

customer-to-customer (C2C) 19

lean systems 20

enterprise resource planning (ERP) 20

customer relationship management (CRM) 20

cross-functional decision making 20

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