Production and Purchasing Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Production management: an introduction. 2. Production planning and control. 3. Materials planning and inventory control. 4. Information system for materials. 5. Materials handling and warehousing. 6. Description of quality. 7. Purchasing process. 8. Purchasing department. 9. Procedure of legal purchasing. 10. Buying process of materials. 11. Stores management and handling. 12. Equipment purchasing and financing. 13. Inspection--control of quality. Bibliography.

"Planning is the function of looking ahead, anticipating difficulties and taking steps to remove the causes before they materialise. Production planning may be defined as a technique of foreseeing or picturing ahead every step in a long series of separate operations, each step is to be taken in the right place, of the right degree and at the right time and each operation is to be done at a maximum efficiency. Production planning covers a careful and exhaustive study and pre-arranging of the technique involving a long and complicated series of separate organisations so that the required product of the right quality and quantity may be manufactured at the right time and at the most economic cost.

"Purchasing is the producing of materials, supplies, machines tools and services required for equipment, maintenance and operation of a manufacturing plant". According to Walters, purchasing function mean\'s "the procurement by purchases of the proper materials, machinery, equipment and supplies for stores used in the manufacture of a product adopted to marketing in the proper quality and quantity at the proper time and at the lowest price, consistent with quality desired." (jacket)