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Manufacturing Planning & Control for Supply Chain Management, 6e by Jacobs, Berry, and Whybark (formerly Vollmann, Berry, Whybark, Jacobs) is a comprehensive reference covering both basic and advanced concepts and applications for students and practicing professionals. The text provides an understanding of supply chain planning and control techniques with topics including purchasing, manufacturing, warehouse, and logistics systems. Manufacturing Planning & Control for Supply Chain Management, 6e continues to be organized in a flexible format, with the basic coverage in chapters 1-8 followed by the last four chapters that focus on the integration of manufacturing with the supply chain. Each chapter provides a managerial issues overview, a detailed technical presentation related to the topic, company examples, and concluding principles. This book is the essential desk reference for Supply Chain Planning and Control techniques.
List of contents
1 Manufacturing Planning and Control
1A Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
2 Demand Management3 Forecasting4 Sales and Operations Planning
4A Advanced S&OP
5 Master Production Scheduling 6 Material Requirements Planning
6A Advanced MRP
7 Capacity Planning and Utilization8 Production Activity Control
8A Advanced Scheduling
9 Just-in-Time 10 Distribution Requirements Planning
10A Management of Supply Chain Logistics
11 Order Point Inventory Control Methods 12 Strategy and MPC System Design
Appendix
Areas of the Standard Normal Distribution
About the author
F. Robert Jacobs is Chase Faculty Fellow Professor of Operations Management at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering as well as Computer and Information Science, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Operations Management all from The Ohio State University.
Summary
Covering both basic and advanced concepts and applications for students and practicing professionals, this text provides an understanding of supply chain planning and control techniques with topics including purchasing, manufacturing, warehouse, and logistics systems.
