Production and inventory control : principles and techniques / G.W. Plossl O. W. Wight
- Bib ID:
- 535418
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Plossl, G. W
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, <1967>
- xvi, 432 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: CHf TER. ONE PERSPECTIVE, I
- The objectives of production and
- inventory control, 1
- The evolution of production and
- inventory control, 3
- Production control today, 5
- The relationship between inventory
- control and production control, 8
- Management policy and production
- control, 9
- Conclusion, 11
- ON41fT-s VFR T O FORECASTING, 13
- The importance of the forecast, 13
- The evolution of forecasting, 17
- Forecasting principles and examples, 18
- Making a forecast, 22
- The overall business forecast, 31
- Product group forecasts, 34
- Item forecasts, 35
- Special forecasts-promotions and new
- products, 41
- Using the forecast, 43
- Forecasting responsibilities, 44
- Summary, 45
- FUNDAMENTALS OF INVENTORY
- MANAGEMENT, 47
- What is inventory?, 47
- The functions of inventories, 49
- Classes of inventory, 51
- Costs in inventory, 52
- Distribution by value, 56
- How well do we manage inventories ?, 61
- X ; i? i THE ECONOMIC LOT-SIZE, 65
- The value of the economic ordering
- quantity concept, 65
- The basic concept, 67
- Trial-and-error approach, 68
- The EOQ formula, 71
- Use of EOQ when costs are not known
- precisely, 71
- Economic order quantity formula
- variations, 75
- Noninstantaneous receipt, 78
- Major and minor setup, 80
- Quantity discounts, 83
- Practical considerations, 85
- Costs in the EOQ formula, 88
- Benefits from the use of EOQ, 91
- P ?": MATERIALS CONTROL, 93
- Replenishing a standard inventory
- item, 93
- Demand during lead time, 96
- Estimating forecast error, 99
- Calculating the order point, 107
- Putting the techniques to work, 113
- Using the Poisson distribution, 117
- The concept of service, 120
- The value of the statistical approach, 122
- Statistics and common sense, 124
- Practical precautions in determining
- order points, 126
- Periodic review system, 127
- Two simple ordering systems, 129
- Materials planning, 131 '
- Simple bill of materials, 132
- The explosion chart, 134
- Multilevel bills of material, 139
- "Gross" and "Net" requirements, 142
- Economic ordering quantities with time-
- series planning, 145
- Designing an effective reordering
- system, 147
- APTR SIX AGGREGATE INVENTORY
- MANAGEMENT, 150
- The need for aggregate inventory
- management, 150
- The total lot-size inventory, 151
- Inventory carrying cost-a policy
- variable, 152
- The LIMIT technique, 154
- LIMIT manual technique, 154
- Advantages of LIMIT, 161
- Applications of LIMIT, 161
- LIMIT-discount, 163
- Using decision information to manage
- lot-size inventories, 170
- The concept of customer service vs.
- inventory investment, 172
- Preparing total service vs. investment
- data, 174
- Showing management total service vs.
- investment charts, 177
- Applications, 179
- Getting started, 183
- Other aggregate inventory calculations, 185
- Managing the total inventory
- investment, 187
- AAPER 9 C l PLANNING PRODUCTION
- CAPACITY, 188
- Lead time and inventories, 188
- The quarterly ordering system, 190
- A rational approach to production
- planning, 192
- Production planning-the link between
- inventory control and production
- control, 193
- Making the production plan, 194
- Examples of simple production plans, 197
- The seasonal production plan, 199
- Using the production plan, 203
- Applications of production planning, 204
- Production planning for functional
- departments, 207
- Production planning for purchased
- materials, 209
- Planning the production level in a make-
- to-order plant, 210
- Some considerations in production
- planning, 212
- Production planning techniques, 213
- Tying the production plan and the
- budget together, 216
- Conclusion, 217
- CONTROLLING PRODUCTION
- CAPACITY, 220
- The need for control over capacity, 220
- Using a production plan to control
- production rates, 221
- Value of decision rules, 228
- Linear decision rules, 229
- Decision rules and reaction time, 234
- Practical considerations, 235
- Controlling the level of purchased
- inventories, 238
- Interrelated elements, 239
- iv l CONTROLLING INPUT-
- SCHEDULING, 241
- The role of scheduling in effective
- production control, 241
- Selecting the input, 242
- Scheduling sequenced operations, 247
- Some principles of shop input
- control, 251
- Standard scheduling techniques, 254
- Machine loading, 261
- Controlling input to vendors, 266
- Scheduling assembly operations, 268
- Loading and scheduling devices, 271
- Project planning and control, 273
- Linear programming, 277
- Practical considerations, 283
- Applications of scheduling and loading
- techniques, 284
- ; r CONTROLLING OUTPUT, 288
- The objectives of shop control, 288
- Expediting, 290
- Dispatching, 292
- Centralized dispatching, 293
- Flow Control, 293
- Rescheduling and priority rules, 296
- Purchasing follow-up, 301
- Lead time control, 303
- Job shop simulation, 310
- Applications of output control
- techniques, 313
- FEEDBACK AND CORRECTIVE
- ACTION, 316
- Feedback-the basis for control, 316
- Feedback and corrective action in a
- make-to-order plant, 319
- Feedback and corrective action in a
- make-to-stock plant, 321
- Feedback from purchasing, 324
- Some feedback techniques, 325
- Performance yardsticks, 328
- The production control checklist, 334
- Generating corrective action, 336
- W? XA1'7 DESIGNING AND MANAGING
- THE PRODUCTION CONTROL SYSTEM, 337
- Systems design, 337
- Systems implementation, 346
- Managing the production control
- function, 349
- Production control-the future, 354.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Wight, Oliver W
- Copyright:
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