Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management Book

Another textbook which does an okay job at presenting a wide range of concepts only somewhat related to each other. The text and the suggested examples are quite comprehensive and generally speaking, it is easier to understand the concepts as presented in this book.

However, I have three major gripes with it. First, there are occasional mistakes in the calculations and occasional missing words in the discourse, which means not enough time has been dedicated for proof-reading, which is kind of important for textbooks. Second, it assumes that the reader has no knowledge of certain concepts such as e.g. weighted average, standard deviation, etc., when the main target group of this book is students of economics and business - I just don't get it why the authors have had to be so condescending.

Finally, and this is a frequently encountered problem with most textbooks, is the desire of the authors to "milk" students by making small and unnecessary modifications just so that they could make a new edition and make the older one irrelevant. It is acceptable to do alterations if you have something to add, however, when you are just moving the exercises around or replacing the numbers in the tables/task descriptions, i.e. when your changes do not add any value to the product, that's just low.