Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems (Business One Irwin/APICS Series in Production Management) - Hardcover

Vollman, Thomas E.; Etc.

9781556236082: Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems (Business One Irwin/APICS Series in Production Management)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556236085 ISBN 13: 9781556236082

Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1991

Vollman, Berry, Whybark and Jacobs’, Manufacturing Planning & Control Systems, 5/e provides comprehensive real world based coverage of the concepts, tools, and methods used to manage and control manufacturing systems. This major revision contains four entirely new chapters and four thoroughly upgraded to nearly original content. ERP system coverage and the impact of them in the field is covered now in a new introductory chapter (4) as well as being integrated heavily into many other chapters from Sales and Operations Planning (3) to Advanced Scheduling Systems (16).

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Synopsis:

Central themes are master planning, material requirements planning, inventory management, capacity management, production activity control, and just-in-time. Each has been updated for this edition (previous eds., 1984 & 1988) to reflect new ideas and practices as the manufacturing world moves toward the "zero everything" (zero inventory, lead time,

About the Author:

David Clay Whybark (Chapel Hill, NC) is on the faculty of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

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