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.

本書特色

● 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), 4th party logistics (4PL), sustainability and much more. Chapter-by-chapter updates include:

。 Chapter 1
．Added definition of configure-to-order.

。 Chapter 2
．Added discussion of difference between strategic plan and strategic business plan, sustainability and social responsibility, reverse supply chain and reverse logistics, and risk management.
．Added definitions of Key Performance Indicators and balanced scorecard and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems.

。 Chapter 3
．Added definition and discussion of postponement.

。 Chapter 5
．Added description of productivity and safety capacity.

。 Chapter 6, added:
．A brief introduction to project management.
．Discussion of scheduling in a non-manufacturing setting.
．An expanded discussion of the Drum-Buffer-Rope system for Theory of Constraints and of measurements.

。 Chapter 8, added:
．A significant expansion of the concepts in demand management.
．A brief discussion of Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR).

。 Chapter 9, added:
．Expanded discussion of Maintenance, Repair, and Operational inventory (MRO).
．Defined inventory velocity and inventory profiling.

。 Chapter 12, added:
．Increased discussion of cycle counting.
．Discussion of consignment inventory and vendor managed inventory (VMI).

。 Chapter 13, added:
．Discussion of 4th party logistics (4PL).
．Definition of intermodal transportation.
．Expanded discussion of transportation scheduling.
．Update to the discussion of INCOTERMS.

。 Chapter 14, added:
．Discussion of environmental sensitivity and supply chain collaboration.
．Comparison of job costing versus process costing.

。 Chapter 15, added:
．Definition and discussion of single moment exchange of die (SMED) and of standardized work.
．Definition of Heijunka.
．Discussion of Little’s Law, visual management, and lean accounting.
．Definition and discussion of continuous work in process (CONWIP).

。 Chapter 16, add