This book is an attempt to keep our readers abreast of contemporary trends in production and operations management. Our major objective, while presenting this book before the readers is to make the subject interesting, and hence, special care has been taken to make it as simple to understand and reader friendly as possible.

The entire book is divided in 25 chapters. The arrangement of chapters is logical. This edition contains learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter supported by illustrations and tables. Review question have been put at the end of each chapter.