Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling (Third Edition)
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Book Selection Edited by J Crocker EA Silver, DF Pyke and R Peterson: Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling (Third Edition) R Klein: Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects AM Castell, AJ Gregory, GA Hindle, ME James and G Ragsdell (Eds): Synergy Matters: Working with Systems in the 21st Century C Zopounidis and PM Pardalos (Eds): Managing in Uncertainty: Theory and Practice
Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling (Third Edition) EA Silver, DF Pyke and R Peterson John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1998. xxii þ 754 pp. £30.50. ISBN 0 471 11947 4 It would seem appropriate to first declare an interest. The senior author is a long-standing friend, and we have shared in writing one paper. I am included in an extensive list of acknowledgements, which otherwise reads like a Who’s Who of the OR=OM world. The first and second editions referred to one of my earliest papers: a reference omitted from this third edition. So honours are about even! The book has been divided into five parts. The first discusses inventory management and production planning in relation to business strategy, with a chapter devoted to the determination of forecasting strategy and the selection of forecasting methods. The second part is concerned with traditional decision systems for the inventory control of individual items, taking into account seasonal demand, probabilistic demand, and different attitudes of management toward costing the risk of insufficient capacity in the short run. The third part deals with special classes of items: including the most important (Class A), the large group of lowactivity items (Class C) and style goods and perishable items (the newsboy problem). Part Four considers coordination of groups of items: first, in a family of items, at a single location, that have something in common such as a supplier, or transport mode or production equipment and secondly in a multi-echelon framework. The final part is concerned with decision making in a production environment and covers aggregate production planning, MRP, ERP, JIT, OPT, and short-range production scheduling. It will be helpful for those who know the previous editions to be aware of the following significant changes from the second edition.
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A third author, David Pyke, has joined the team. Surprisingly, this is not pointed out in the preliminary pages. His particular interest seems to be in supply chain management and multi-echelon inventories and a new chapter is added that incorporates some of the latest research and experiences of leading firms. A greater emphasis on the use of spreadsheets, and a consequent reduction in emphasis on graphical and tabular aids in decision making. New chapters are devoted to just-in-time (JIT), with a discussion of optimised production technology (OPT), and to production scheduling. Introductions to enterprise resource planning systems (ERP), such as SAP, and the eco
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