The leading reference for production and inventory control professionals for over 25 years, the Handbook has been totally updated to reflect today's rapidly changing manufacturing environment. The Third Edition now includes 37 contributions from more than 50 distinguished members of the American Production and Inventory Control Soceity (APICS). The work features 15 all-new chapters, covering bar coding, bills of materials, MRPII, customer and vendor relations, TQM topic, and more--plus full details on APICS certification requirements.
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Section I : Organizational for Production and Inventory Control
Chapter 1 : Production and Inventory Concepts
Chapter 2 : Management of the Production Control Department
Chapter 3 : Organizations Concepts for Production Control
Section II : Supporting Systems for Production and Inventory Control
Chapter 4 : Customer Relations
Chapter 5 : Product and Process Information
Chapter 6 : Facilities for Production
Chapter 7 : Transportation and Physical Distribution
Section III : Planning for Production Control
Chapter 8 : Forecasting
Chapter 9 : Short-Range Planning
Chapter 10 : Manpower Management
Chapter 11 : Long-Range Planning
Section IV : Production Control Operations
Chapter 12 : Work Authorization, Dispatching and Expending
Chapter 13 : Scheduling and Loading Techniques
Section V : Inventory Control
Chapter 14 : Elements of Inventory Control
Chapter 15 : Physical Control of Inventories
Chapter 16 :Inventory Control Systems
Chapter 17 : Requirements Planning Systems
Chapter 18 : Inventory Control in the Department of Defense
Chapter 19 : The Theory of Inventory and Forecasting
Section VI : Systems for Production and Inventory Control
Chapter 20 : Systems Analysis and Design
Chapter 21 : Nonautomated Systems
Chapter 22 : Punched Card Systems
Chapter 23 : Conputer-Based Systems
Chapter 24 : Information Transmission Systems
Chapter 25 : Shop Data Collection Systems
Section VII : Techniques and Tools for Production and Inventory Control
Chapter 26 : Decision Making for Production and Inventory Control
Chapter 27 : Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 28 : Statistical Theory
Chapter 29 : Nomographs
Section VIII : APICS-Factory Report
Chapter 30 : Apics-Factory Reports
Index Follows Section Eight
