Orlicky's material requirements planning [electronic resource] / Carol A. Ptak, Chad Smith.
Series: McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineeringPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2013.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 electronic text (xvii, 526 p.) : illISBN:- 9780071755634
- Material requirements planning
- Production control -- Data processing
- Inventory control -- Data processing
- Manufacturing resource planning
- Material requirements planning
- Manufacturing processes -- Data processing
- Production management
- Production control
- Inventory control
- Manufacturing processes
- Economic lot size
- Production scheduling
- 658.7 23
- TS155.8 .O742 2011
- Also issued in print.

Print version c2011.
Includes bibliographical references.
Overview -- MRP in the modern world -- The four critical questions answered -- Inventory in a manufacturing environment -- Principles of materials requirements planning -- The material requirements planning system -- Processing logic -- Lot sizing -- System records and files -- A new way of looking at things -- Product definition -- Master production schedule -- More than an inventory control system -- System effectiveness: a function of design and use -- Industry effect on MRP -- Project manufacturing -- Remanufacturing -- Process industry application -- Repetitive manufacturing application -- Sales and operations planning -- Historical context -- Blueprint for the future: demand-driven MRP logic -- Strategic inventory positioning -- Buffer profiles and level determination -- Dynamic buffers -- Demand-driven planning -- Highly visible and collaborative execution -- Demand-driven material requirements planning (DDMRP) performance reporting and analytics -- DDMRP future -- A. Joseph Orlicky's contributions to material requirements planning -- B. Definitions: APICS terms and their place in DDMRP -- C. New terms in demand-driven material requirements planning -- D. To my best recollection: the eras of material requirements planning with packaged software.
Also issued in print.
Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Feb. 6, 2013.