References
Every source used to build this site, organised by type. Every "Sources" box on every concept page links back to something on this list.
Your official syllabus and course policy document cite the textbook as "Operations and Supply Chain Management," Russell, Taylor, Saddikuti & Gudavalleti, 10th Edition (John Wiley, 2023). The actual PDF supplied in your OM folder, however, is Russell & Taylor's "Operations Management," 7th Edition (2011) — an earlier edition under a slightly different title, without the Indian co-authors.
The core concepts, formulas, and worked examples for your syllabus topics are essentially unchanged between these editions (verified topic-by-topic while building this site), but chapter numbers differ. Your course policy's instruction plan cites Chapters 1, 6, 7, 8, and 14 for various units; the actual 7th-edition PDF places the same content in Chapters 1, 6, 7 (+ Supplement 7), 13, and 17 respectively. This site cites page and chapter numbers from the actual 7th-edition PDF you have, since that is the material you can actually open and check — not the 10th edition's numbering, which this site's author has not seen. If your class discussions reference a different chapter number for the same topic, that discrepancy is why.
Textbook
| Unit(s) | Topic | Chapter (as in supplied PDF) | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1, 2 | Introduction to OM, Productivity, Operations Strategy | Ch. 1 — Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management | pp. 1–31 |
| 3, 6 | Process Analysis, Process Selection, Product-Process Matrix | Ch. 6 — Processes and Technology | pp. 226–255 |
| 4 | Facility Location Models | Ch. 7 Supplement — Operational Decision-Making Tools: Facility Location Models | pp. 297–314 |
| 5 | Capacity and Facilities (Layout) Design | Ch. 7 — Capacity and Facilities Design | pp. 257–296 |
| 7, 8, 9 | Inventory Management, EOQ/EBQ, Reorder Point | Ch. 13 — Inventory Management | pp. 553–589 |
| 10 | Scheduling — Loading, Sequencing, Monitoring | Ch. 17 — Scheduling | pp. 755–789 |
Full citation: Russell, Roberta S., and Bernard W. Taylor III. Operations Management, 7th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
Lecture PPTs
| File | Unit(s) used for | Key content drawn from it |
|---|---|---|
Intro-PresentationOM.pptx Open | Unit 1 | Basic definitions of operations, operations function scope. |
OM Unit1.pptx Open | Unit 1 | Transformation process, goods-service continuum, evolution history, productivity worked example, Akshaya Patra case. |
unit2.pptx Open | Unit 2 | Strategy formulation process, order winners/qualifiers, positioning (cost/speed/quality/flexibility). |
UNIT 3 & 6.pptx | Units 3, 6 | Types of processes, product-process matrix (5-cluster version), process flowcharting, breakeven analysis, buffering/blocking/starving, bottleneck/throughput/utilization, Little's Law. |
Facility Location -Unit 4.pptx Open | Unit 4 | Types of facilities, location factors, factor rating / centre-of-gravity / load-distance worked problems. |
Unit - 5.pptx Open | Unit 5 | Capacity planning strategies (lead/lag/average), economies/diseconomies of scale. |
Unit - 5-layout.pptx Open | Unit 5 | Process/product/fixed-position/hybrid layouts, service layouts, block & relationship diagramming, line balancing. |
unit 7.pptx Open | Unit 7 | Inventory basics, dependent/independent demand, inventory costs, control systems, ABC classification. |
No dedicated lecture PPT was supplied for Units 8, 9, or 10 — those units rely on the textbook (Ch. 13, Ch. 17) as the primary and only source.
Course Notes
| Document | Used for |
|---|---|
Operations Management-syllabus.pdf Open | Official unit-by-unit syllabus content, midterm scope (Units 1–10), textbook and reference-book list. |
OM-Course Policy - 2026-27.pdf Open | Lecture-by-lecture instruction plan, textbook chapter mapping per unit, assessment scheme. |
Other Sources
| Document | Used for |
|---|---|
Amazon India.pdf Open | Case study — "Amazon India: A Case Study of Location Analysis and Location Selection Factors." Used in Case-Based Questions (Unit 4). |
Readings.zip — product-process matrix-services application R1 R2 | Johansson, P. & Olhager, J. (2006). "Linking product–process matrices for manufacturing and industrial service operations." International Journal of Production Economics, 104, 615–624. Used in Unit 6's "Product-Process Matrix for Services" section. |
How sources are labelled on this site
No chapter, section, lecture, or page number appears anywhere on this site unless it was directly verified against the actual supplied file — nothing was guessed or invented.
Using the source viewer
Every citation on this site is clickable. Selecting a chip such as p. 230 or Slide 16 opens a document panel on the right, already showing the exact textbook page or lecture slide that the surrounding text was written from. Use ←/→ to move between adjacent pages or slides, the zoom controls to enlarge, File ↗ to open the original document (PDFs jump straight to the right page), and Esc to close.
Correction log
- Bottleneck, throughput and buffer are textbook concepts after all. An earlier version of this site flagged them as lecture-only. They are in fact defined in Russell & Taylor Ch. 17, "Theory of Constraints" pp. 774–775, and the Unit 3 exam answers are now grounded there.
- Capacity lead/lag/average strategies, facility-layout objectives, and the transformation-process types were previously attributed mainly to the lecture PPTs; all three are textbook material (Ch. 7 pp. 258–261, Ch. 1 p. 2) and are now cited accordingly.
- Still lecture-only (verified absent from this textbook edition): the terms blocking and starving, Little's Law, the process-performance vocabulary (setup/run/operation/flow/value-added time, process velocity), and location breakeven analysis. Each is labelled as such on its own page.