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Title: Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems by Thomas E. Vollmann, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark ISBN: 0-7863-1209-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Instructor
Comment: Great book for all Industrial engineers. It does not get completely complicated and relates directly to common day industry practices.
Rating: 4
Summary: A classic field handbook for manufacturing professionals
Comment: This textbook, which has been around for a number of years and has undergone a few revisions, has become the standard preparatory text for APICS tests and college-level production/operations management courses in dozens of universities.
The content is very broad - it covers almost the entire gamut of P/OM topics to some degree. That may be the only drawback to this book: it so broad in its topical coverage that there may be examples where the authors could have gone deeper in their presentation on specific subjects.
But even so, this charactertistic of being "100 miles wide and a few miles deep" works very well for readers who need a comprehensive primer on P/OM. That would include people just entering the field, or those that need to undestand the primary subject matters and areas of study, to point them in new directions.
I highly recommend this book as a foundation reference guide to your business library. Again, I know of many books that may be deeper in specific areas of P/OM, but I know of no book that encompasses so many topics and does and admirable job of presenting those topics. I would also caution the seasoned, highly-read P/OM professional in buying this book, but leave it for those newcomers to the field.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent reference and resource - A "current classic"
Comment: This book is a classic: depth of information over a broad body of knowledge.
The error mentioned by another reviewer appears on p. 488: the "L-bar" term should be squared. Verifying dimensional homogeneity [i.e.that units of measure calculate consistently across the expression and result in "items" {whatever units demand is carried = units of safety stock}]) would alert a reader quickly that the product in the first term is incorrect.
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Title: Master Scheduling : A Practical Guide to Competitive Manufacturing by John F. Proud ISBN: 0471243221 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 30 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $120.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Materials Management (4th Edition) by J.R. Tony Arnold, Stephen N. Chapman ISBN: 0130144908 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 24 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $113.33 |
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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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Title: Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning by George W. Plossl ISBN: 0070504598 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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Title: Sales & Operations Planning -- The How-To Handbook by Thomas F. Wallace ISBN: 0967488400 Publisher: T. F. Wallace & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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