In two volumes, Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise: A State of the Art Handbook examines production planning across the extended enterprise against a backdrop of important gaps between theory and practice. The early chapters describe the multifaceted nature of production planning problems and reveal many of the core complexities. The middle chapters describe recent research on theoretical techniques to manage these complexities. Accounts of production planning system currently in use in various industries are included in the later chapters. Throughout the two volumes there are suggestions on promising directions for future work focused on closing the gaps.
| ISBN: | 9781441964847 |
| Publication date: | 8th November 2010 |
| Author: | Karl G Kempf, Pinar Keskinocak, Reha Uzsoy |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer US |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Series: | International Series in Operations Research & Management Science |
| Genres: |
Management of specific areas |