Description:This book provides an overview of some of the fundamentals of global operations functions in an organisation. Key issues affecting the global industry are covered, such as operational issues for entrepreneurs in the global context; Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its impact on corporate governance; evaluating country performances with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); the ACU (Asian Currency Market) in an optimised world currency basket; warehousing in modern supply chain management; and others. This book also looks at how globalisation is presenting new challenges in operations and the new regulatory environment.