Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise. Vol.1

The HANDBOOK OF PRODUCTION PLANNING provides a broad overview of different aspects of production planning, focusing on the needs of today s global markets, companies, and the directions in which the current tools and approaches need to evolve. The handbook will start from current production planning problems, examining these problems systematically from a variety of viewpoints, and then exploring appropriate methodological and planning tools to solve problems. Enabling this discussion is a broad, flexible framework that focuses on specific types of problems. This framework will organize around four sections: (1) Basic elements of the production planning problems. (2) The basic context in which the firm operates. (3) Production planning formulations and methods are explored and critiqued vis-à-vis solution to problems. (4) Survey of production planning in representative industries including semiconductors, autos, aerospace, reverse logistics, and pharmaceuticals.