Production Management Techniques: Push‐Pull Classification and Application Conditions

A unitary scheme which classifies certain subsystems, within production management, according to push and pull logics is proposed. The three subsystems described are: inventory management, manufacturing priority assignment and material picking and moving, and production planning. The classification proposed is a starting point for establishing application requirements. The characteristics of the production context, not the inherent logic, determine the choice of the most feasible techniques. Techniques with different logics can hence coexist in the same production system.