Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are free to use and offer students access to hundreds of quality academic papers, journals and books to help in your studies.
Make sure you have your ProQuest login details to hand. These can be found on Blackboard. Also, note you will be required to create a BookBoon account to access and download the textbooks.
Any questions or issues please contact our Librarian Luke Privitera - LPrivitera@holmes.edu.au
Operations, Supply Chain & Logistics
ProQuest - Global Logistics - his established book has evolved to represent the current trends, best practice and latest thinking in global logistics. It serves as a forum allowing the contributors, a range of acknowledged sector specialists, to discuss key logistics issues and share their authoritative views.
ProQuest - Leading Procurement Strategy - Leading Procurement Strategy will equip the reader with the skills, knowledge and tools needed to articulate an effective procurement strategy and embrace a transformational role to lead procurement teams.
ProQuest - Logistics & Retail Management - Logistics and Retail Management is essential reading for retail and logistics managers, academics and students.
Open Textbooks for Hong Kong - Operations Management – Operations Management is an area of business concerned with managing the process that converts inputs into outputs, in the form of goods and/or services. Increasingly complex environments together with the recent economic swings and substantially squeezed industrial margins put extra pressure on companies, and decision makers are pushed to increase operations efficiency and effectiveness.
AnyLogic - Operations and Supply Chain Simulation with AnyLogic - This book is recommended for anyone who is interested in supply chain and operations management. It has applied models and a simple, easy to follow format for people without an engineering background.
Saylor Academy - Operations Management - Examination of how companies manage processes to produce the products or services required by their customers. Topics include: product design, supply chain management, quality, inventory, and planning.