Introduction to Materials Management, Global Edition (8^th Ed.)

For all courses in Materials Management, Production, Inventory Control, and Logistics taught in business and industrial technology departments of community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities.

Understand all elements of production planning and control, and how they fit together with Introduction to Materials Management.

Clearly written and exceptionally user-friendly, this text covers all the essentials of modern supply chain management, manufacturing planning and control systems, purchasing, and physical distribution. Content, examples, questions, and problems lead students step-by-step to mastery. Widely adopted by colleges and universities worldwide, this is the only APICS-listed reference text for the Basics of Supply Chain Management (BSCM) CPIM certification examination.

Preface

1.   Introduction to Materials Management

2.   Production Planning System

3.   Master Scheduling

4.   Material Requirements Planning

5.   Capacity Management

6.   Production Activity Control

7.   Purchasing

8.   Forecasting and Demand Management

9.   Inventory Fundamentals

10.  Order Quantities

11.  Independent Demand Ordering Systems

12.  Physical Inventory and Warehouse Management

13.  Physical Distribution

14.  Products and Processes

15.  Lean Production

16.  Total Quality Management

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Index

• Resonates with a wide audience of students in materials management and supply chain courses. Simple, clear, and readable,this accessible text avoids unnecessarily complex mathematics.
• Helps students understand all elements of production planning and control, and how they fit together. Comprehensive explanations of the essentials of production planning and control include production planning systems, master scheduling, MRP, capacity management, and production activity control.
• UPDATED: Covers all the issues students will need to be familiar with to succeed with modern materials management. Wide-ranging, up-to-date topic coverage includes ISO standards, KPI, Theory of Constraints, Project Management, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR), continuous work in process (CONWIP), 4^th party logistics (4PL), sustainability and much more.
• Prepares students for success in organisations that use APICS methods and APICS certification. This title is the only primary reference for key APICS Certification courses including Basics of Supply Chain Management and Detailed Scheduling and Planning. It helps students prepare for APICS certification by mastering APICS concepts, techniques, and vocabulary.
• Prepares students for any role in inventory management. Three full chapters on inventory management introduce core techniques ranging from setting order quantities to utilising independent demand ordering systems.
• UPDATED: Helps students test, apply, and deepen their knowledge. Extensive pedagogical features include chapter introductions and summaries, Key Terms, margin icons, questions, and problems (solutions provided for approximately 50% of problems). Many end-of-chapter problems have been revised, and some new ones added.
• UPDATED: Allows students to apply concepts i