Materials management : A systems approach

1 Introduction to Materials Management -- 1.1 Historical Development: A Brief Review -- 1.2 The Company Process and its Organization -- 1.3 The Company as a System -- 1.4 Application of the System Model to Materials Management -- 2 What is Materials Management? -- 2.1 Definition -- 2.2 Contents -- 2.3 Tasks -- 2.4 Variations in the Organizational Structure -- 2.5 Interfaces with Other Company Functions -- 2.6 Interfaces with the External Environment -- 2.7 Technological Influences -- 3 Why Materials Management? -- 3.1 Objectives -- 3.2 Aspects of Integration -- 3.3 Summary of Advantages -- 4 How to Introduce Materials Management? -- 4.1 What has to change? -- 4.2 Resistance to Organizational Change -- 4.3 How to Overcome Resistance -- 4.4 The Reorganization Process -- 5 Materials Management and Electronic Data Processing -- 5.1 An Integrated Information System -- 5.2 System Realization -- Postscript -- Appendix 1: Organizational Auditing Checklist -- Appendix 2: A User Oriented Checklist for the Development of a Materials Management Information System -- References.