Research Catalog

Title

Production and inventory control; principles and techniques [by] G.W. Plossl [and] O.W. Wight.

Author

Plossl, George W., 1918-

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1967]

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Details

Additional Authors

Wight, Oliver W.

Description

xvi, 432 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Management textbook on production planning and input output control, with particular reference to practices in the USA - covers forecasting, supply and demand factors, costs, the time factor, operational research and the use of EDP therein, etc., and includes a number of case studies and bibliographys.

Subject

• Inventory control
• Production control
• inventorying
• Inventory control
• Production control
• Management
• Produktion
• management
• production
• planning
• input output
• forecast
• supply and demand
• cost
• time factor
• operational research
• EDP
• case study
• gestion
• planification
• entrée-sortie
• prévision
• offre et demande
• coût
• facteur temps
• recherche opérationnelle
• traitement électronique des données
• étude de cas
• administración
• producción
• planificación
• insumo producto
• predicción
• oferta y demanda
• costo
• factor tiempo
• investigación operativa
• elaboración electrónica de datos
• estudio de casos
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

• textbook.
• bibliography.
• manuel d'enseignement.
• bibliographie.
• libro de texto.
• bibliografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

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.

LCCN

67010750

OCLC

• ocm00271727
• 271727
• SCSB-9143214

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library