This book provides an excellent source for professionals preparing for professional certification examinations. This new edition has been significantly reorganized to reflect more closely the organisation of professional certification exams. Discussion follows the step-by-step decision-making process, including topics such as: establishment of management objectives, long-, medium-, and short-range planning, execution, and control. It also features increased emphasis on tactical and technological considerations.

Production and Inventory Management | Donald W. Fogarty (Author), John H. Blackstone (Author), Thomas R. Hoffmann (Author) | South-Western

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Production and Inventory Management (PIM) Environments

Part 1: Master planning
Chapter 2: Long-Range Planning
Chapter 3: Forecasting
Chapter 4: Master Scheduling

Part 2: Inventory management
Chapter 5: Inventory Management: An Overview
Chapter 6: Independent Demand Inventory Management
Chapter 7: Aggregate Inventory Management
Chapter 8: Joint Replenishment
Chapter 9: Distribution and Inventory Control

Part 3: Material requirements planning
Chapter 10: Material Requirements Planning
Chapter 11: MRP Extensions and Applications

Part 4: Capacity management
Chapter 12: Rough Cut Capacity Planning
Chapter 13: Capacity Requirements Planning

Part 5: Production activity control
Chapter 14: Production Activity Control
Chapter 15: Purchasing Management
Chapter 16: Project Management (PERT/CPM)

Part 6: The just-in-time approach
Chapter 17: The Just-in-Time (JIT) Approach
Chapter 18: Total Quality Control and Total Preventive Maintenance

Part 7: Production systems design and operation
Chapter 19: Theory of Constraints
Chapter 20: Production and Inventory Management Systems
Chapter 21: Managing PI M

Part 8: Technical topics
Chapter 22: Mathematical Programming
Chapter 23: Stochastic Simulation