Inventory and Production Management in Supply Chains (4th Edition)
by Edward A. Silver, David F. Pyke, Douglas J. Thomas · CRC Press
Reference text on inventory and production control: order-point/order-quantity systems, coordinated replenishment, lot sizing, forecasting, multi-echelon stock allocation, and production planning. Derives replenishment policies and their cost consequences under deterministic and probabilistic demand. It covers the messy implementation cases (coordinated items, capacity constraints, forecast error) that pure theory texts skip.
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