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Title: Introduction to Materials Management (4th Edition) by J.R. Tony Arnold, Stephen N. Chapman ISBN: 0-13-014490-8 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 24 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $113.33 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a concise introduction to materials management
Comment: I think this is the right book to start studying materials management.Each chapter, written in an easy to read manner, offers a great deal of systematically classified information on every aspect of production planning and control. I suggest reading the book with the accompanying case book, which also covers lots of useful material though with some typographical errors.
If chapters were outlined in more detail with subsections it would help facilitate a clearer understanding and enable following up points of reference more easily.
I and my students found it both useful and enjoyable in class.
Rating: 3
Summary: This is the best book for the CPIM Exam, but ...
Comment: there are better books on Manufacturing. The third edition was written to make the book agree with APICS terminology, and the fourth edition is not a major rewrite. If you are buying this book to study for the CPIM Exam, save yourself some money and buy the third edition used.
My problem with this book can best be shown with an example. On page 61 (3d ed.) "The master production schedule is a plan for the production of individual end items." Later (p.79) "Planning bills are an artificial grouping of components for planning purposes." "They are used to simplify forecasting, master production scheduling, and material requirements planning. They do not represent buldable products, but an average product."
So which is it, does the MPS contain only hard orders to be filled, or hard orders AND planning bills, or should we also add forecasts of families of products. I believe that an MPS that contained ONLY hard orders would be useless.
For a book that I wouldn't be without, see: "Manufacturing for Survival" by Blair Williams." It doesn't use APICS terminology, but it does have more useful information.
Rating: 3
Summary: The best book for the first CPIM Exam, but ...
Comment: there are better books on Manufacturing. The third edition was written to make the book agree with APICS terminology, and the fourth edition is not a major rewrite. If you are buying this book to study for the CPIM Exam, save yourself some money and buy the third edition used.
My problem with this book can best be shown with an example. On page 61 (3d ed.) "The master production schedule is a plan for the production of individual end items." Later (p.79) "Planning bills are an artificial grouping of components for planning purposes." "They are used to simplify forecasting, master production scheduling, and material requirements planning. They do not represent buldable products, but an average product."
So which is it, does the MPS contain only hard orders to be filled, or hard orders AND planning bills, or should we also add forecasts of families of products. I believe that an MPS that contained ONLY hard orders would be useless.
For a book that I wouldn't be without, see: "Manufacturing for Survival" by Blair Williams." It doesn't use APICS terminology, but it does have more useful information.
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Title: Introduction to Materials Management Casebook by J.R. Tony Arnold, Stephen N. Chapman, Lloyd M. Clive ISBN: 0139732233 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.60 |
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Title: Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems by Thomas E. Vollmann, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark ISBN: 0786312092 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox ISBN: 0884270610 Publisher: North River Press Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Apics Dictionary by James F. Cox, John H., Jr. Blackstone, American Production and Inventory Control Society, Apics--The Educational Society for Resource Management, Clifford A. Wright ISBN: 1558221913 Publisher: Amer Production & Inventory Control Society Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Production & Inventory Management by Donald W. Fogarty, John H. Balckstone, Thomas R. Hoffman, Thomas R. Hoffmann, John H. Blackstone ISBN: 0538074612 Publisher: South-Western College/West Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $92.95 |
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