Professional Documents
Culture Documents
By Steven Nahmias
required to support the production function. This book has 12 chapters the first chapter
discusses that we are evolving into a service economy and disastrous consequences in
economic health. Introduction of the quality movement success of the Japanese in the
business industry is also tackled. In this chapter you will know all about Supply Chain
Management, behind Wal-Mart’s success in the snap shot application, time based
competition, strategies and hi-tech industries are being presented in this area. Chapter two
of this book includes the discussion of forecasting issues and most popular methods for
smoothing. This chapter explains the difference of one step ahead and multiple step
forecasts is made clear. Chapter three talks about comprehensive treatment of aggregate
planning and considers several issues were opened in this area. Questions that made
students confused like what is the difference between normal units and aggregate units
was explained by few authors in this section. Supplement on linear Programming is being
tackled in this chapter. Chapter four shows the description of types of inventories,
motivation for holding inventories and types of inventory control system. EOQ model
was being discussed in this chapter. EOQ models for production planning, production
scheduling and classical inventory models are also discussed in this area. Chapter five
talks about Inventory Control Subject to uncertain demand. Newsboy model as well as
careful discussion of the interpretation of cost is tackled in this chapter. Chapter six of
this book is about Push and Pull Production Control System focuses in MRP and JIT.
MRP and JIT philosophies for manufacturing control were presented in this area. Chapter
seven is about Operations Scheduling. It tackles about the most important results for
performance is made clear by presenting a detailed example showing the effect of the
force sequencing rules. First Come First Serve, Shortest processing time and Critical
Ration. Sequencing algorithm for multiple machines is also presented in this chapter.
Project scheduling, description of the project scheduling problem and how projects are
presented as networks are being discussed in chapter eight. Chapter nine shows
traditional charts for assisting with layout decisions including the from-to-chart and the
Rel chart, brief discussion of several other extensions including models for locating
location models are found in this chapter. Quality and assurance is briefly viewed in
chapter ten. Chapter eleven explains reliability and maintability as part of the body of
chapter twelve discussed the recent advances in manufacturing technology, supply chain
bottle neck scheduling and application of artificial intelligence and expert system to
The three basic elements of production operation are production design, process design,