The Management of Manufacturing : Models and Analysis Book

	Preface
	List of boxes
1	An introduction to the manufacturing environment	3
2	Approaches to the control of manufacturing	27
3	Balancing inventory costs and set-up costs	61
4	Inventory as a buffer against uncertainty	92
5	Inventory for multi-stage systems and many products	120
6	Production planning	163
7	Scheduling problems with a single limited resource manufacturing environment	195
8	Scheduling problems with more than one machine	220
9	Project scheduling	270
	A Forecasting	301
	B Computer simulation	325
	C Linear programming	340
	D Combinatorial optimization	360
	Glossary	383
	Solutions to problems	389
	Index	394