Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management
by Thomas E. Vollmann, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark, F. Robert Jacobs · F. Robert Jacobs, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark, Thomas E. Vollmann
Standard graduate and practitioner text on manufacturing planning and control systems: demand management, sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, MRP, capacity planning, and shop-floor control. Readers learn how these planning layers fit together across a supply chain.
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