Manufacturing Planning and Control - Softcover

Jonsson, Patrik; Mattsson, Stig-Arne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0077117395 ISBN 13: 9780077117399

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Synopsis

Manufacturing Planning and Control by Patrik Jonsson and Stig-Arne Mattsson

This new book takes a comprehensive look at manufacturing planning and control from the manufacturing company’s perspective but the focus is both on the intra-organisational system and on the supply chain as a whole.

With its unique focus on understanding the characteristics of planning processes, methods and techniques and how to design and use processes, methods and techniques in various planning environments, this book has an important relevance from an applied industry point of view. It provides you with knowledge and guidelines on how to develop the planning environment, and how to design and use planning processes and methods efficiently and effectively in operational practice.

This book is an important learning tool for undergraduates and postgraduates and will help them develop an understand of manufacturing planning and control that goes beyond statistics and calculation, and provides knowledge and frameworks for designing planning processes in different industrial environments. This book supports all modules on APICS's CPIM certification program.

Key Features:

Problems, Exercises Examples
Many of the chapters feature problems and exercises to help explain concepts. Examples of how methods and concepts are used in practice are integrated throughout the text.

Discussion Tasks
This feature encourages you to review and apply the knowledge you have acquired from each chapter.

Cases and Discussion Questions
End of chapter cases illustrate current practice and key concepts defined and described in the book. Each case is followed by a set of questions to help you critically apply your understanding and further develop some of the topics introduced to you.

Patrik Jonsson is Professor of operations and supply chain management at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Stig-Arne Mattsson has 30 years of industry experience in operations management, supply chain management and information systems. He has also been Adjunct Professor in supply chain management, first at Växjö University and later at Lund University.

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Product Description

Title: Manufacturing, Planning and Control <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Patrik Jonsson <>Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL Higher Education

About the Author

Dr Patrick Jonsson is professor in supply chain management at Chalmers University of Technology. He holds a PhD in production management from Lund University and is CFPIM and CSCP certified through APICS. At Chalmers he is currently Head of the PhD programme at the Department of Technology Management and Economics and lecturers in masters and executive training programmes in Supply Chain Management. He has during the last 15 years co-ordinated and taught numerous logistics and supply chain management courses and programmes at Vï¿xjï¿ University and Chalmers University of Technology and in executive and further education programmes for people working in industry. His research which mainly has dealt with manufacturing planning and control, information systems, supplier structures and relations, outsourcing and performance management in supply chains has been published in journals such as Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal and International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. He is currently on the editorial advisory boards of logistics and business journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0077117395
• ISBN 13: 9780077117399
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 488