A classic, practical, integrated approach to production and inventory control.

Production and Inventory Control: Principles and Techniques | George W. Plossl (Author) | Pearson Prentice Hall

Features:
• Focuses on the fundamental principles and techniques, rather than on mathematical derivations.
• Explores the full range of manufacturing control techniques — their strengths and weaknesses, and their applications — with examples from process, repetitive, aerospace and defense industries.
• Identifies 66 production control principles.
• Provides in-depth coverage of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and the Master Production Schedule.

Production and Inventory Control: Principles and Techniques

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Perspective
Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Inventory Management
Chapter 3: The Economic Lot-Size
Chapter 4: Demand Management
Chapter 5: Materials Control: Independent Demand
Chapter 6: Materials Control: Dependent Demand
Chapter 7: Master Planning
Chapter 8: Aggregate Inventory Management
Chapter 9: Capacity Requirements Planning
Chapter 10: Controlling Input
Chapter 11: Controlling Output
Chapter 12: Feedback and Corrective Action
Problems
Case Studies