Students studying operations management often lack a framework for relating their experiences to the subject at hand. Describes the university decision making process in the context of the closed‐loop MRP model. The university is familiar to students, so it gives them a point of reference in...

Capacity is generally considered only in one sense – to provide the means for producing a product or service. Defines capacity as serving two functions – to provide the means for producing a long‐run, stable level of a good or service, and to provide the means to adapt to fluctuations in...

About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Background -- 2. Post-World War II developments -- 3. The supply-chain management concept -- 4. The impact of globalization -- 5. Globalization issues -- 6. Supply-chain security -- 7. Day-to-day issues -- 8. Doing it right: a mini case study...

Experts in operations research and developers of software application systems have been treading separate paths for many years. It is urgently necessary to reset this course so that the demanding requirements of variousCIM concepts can be realized. This is specially relevant for computer-based...