... Materials management Design Design management Product development Automotive industry A limitation pointed out by Johansson and Johansson (2006) is that the MSS design model does not accentuate the design of the materials flows for the specific components but relates all design issues to the six...

... as guidelines when designing and developing training and education programs and function as a benchmark. Originality/value The paper provides a longitudinal state‐of‐the‐art description of materials planning usage and identifies application modes with positive and negative performance impact. Materials...

... for the other materials feeding principles. Materials management Systems engineering Product development Case studies The importance of design is stated over and over again in the literature. The design of products, services, and processes will affect quality, speed, dependability...

... is affecting, and is affected, by the others; Table I summarizes the explanation for the relationships. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Waste minimization Just in time Assessment Materials management International competition and customer demands are forcing radical changes...

... the same day. A St. John unit clerk shelves all the products. It bears noting that contrary to US practice, the distributor did not charge a mark‐up on the products managed under the stockless method in this pilot project. Supply‐chain management Materials management Logistics Health care...

... off in the required lot quantity in a synchronized manner. Places emphasis on the process aspect of the overall system: the business of materials management being approached in a holistic fashion. Discusses the problems and issues associated with various systems and organizational matters, principally...

... and pull systems using simulation analysis. The simulation results show that the pull system dominates the push system in lead time, in‐process inventories and stability of the production process. Just‐in‐time Materials management Planning Systems design © MCB UP Limited 1995 IJOPM 15,9 70...

... in this way would be those that directly influenced overall manufacturing lead times. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Cell manufacturing Continuous improvement Just‐in‐time Kanban Materials management Process control In order to bring the benefits of flow process production methods to HV/LV...

... flow consists of four different departments; the press shop, the car‐body shop, the paint shop and the final assembly. In this study a part of the car‐body shop was studied. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Information Lead times Materials management Motor industry Real time Sequencing...

... on the shopfloor and a new management form. Makes clear, however, that these pre‐conditions demand a basically untraditional way of reasoning. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Assembly Flexibility Materials management Production management Sweden IJOPM 12,7/8 134 Preconditions for Long Cycle Time Assembly...

... that when the order cycles are set in a geometric progression then they are indeed optimum. © MCB UP Limited 1991 MRP Materials management Quantitative techniques Optimum Order Cycles in MRP Form a Geometric Progression Optimum Order Cycles in MRP Sandeep Shah Aston Business School, UK 83...

... Manufacturing Materials management Production Design Flexible assembly systems Flexible manufacturing systems Just‐in‐time Modular System Design and Modular System for Flexible Control for Flexible Assembly Assembly by Sushil Rajput and David Bennett Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK 17 Most...

... of deviating from the diagonal band are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Information Systems Materials Handling Materials Management IJOPM 8,1 36 Received November 1986 Revised March 1987 Integrating MRP with Information Systems through the MEISE Grid* by Chrwan-jyh Ho and David M. Dilts...

...., House, R.J. and Lirtzman, S.I., "Role Conflict and Ambiguity in Complex Organizations", Administrative Science Quarterly, 1970, pp. 150-63. © MCB UP Limited 1986 Implementation Materials Management Planning Models ...

... of Manufacture", Engineering Computers, Vol. 3 No. 4, 1984, pp. 31-2. 15. Ingersoll Engineers, Integrated Manufacture, IPS Publications, Bedford, 1985. CAD Data Processing Future Materials Management ...

... Uncertainty", Decision Science, October 1976. 31. Whybark, D. C., "Evaluating Alternative Quantity Discounts", Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, Vol. 13 No. 2, Summer 1977. 32. Callarman, T. E. and Whybark, D. C., "Purchase Quantity Discounts in an MRP Environment", Discussion Paper No. 72...

...., Milford (Connecticut), "OPT Optimized ProductionTechnology,"General Information Pamphlet, 1984. © MCB UP Limited 1985 Materials Management Operations Management Production Management ...

..., E., Inventory Systems, Wiley, New York, 1966. 2. Sasieni, M., Yaspan, A. and Friedman, L., Operations Research, Wiley, New York, 1959. 3. Tersine, R., Principles of Inventory and Materials Management, North-Holland, New York, 1982. © MCB UP Limited 1984 Inventory Control Models...

... the procedures into any MRP system. © MCB UP Limited 1984 Capacity Materials Management Production Management 22 Alternative Heuristics for Large Scale Capacitated Requirements Planning Systems by Johannes E. Harl* Received June 1983 Revised December 1983 Performance improvementfor requirements...

... of particular situations where each of the lot sizing rules works best. © MCB UP Limited 1984 Materials Management 39 A Comparison of Dynamic Lot Sizing Rules for Use in a Single Stage MRP System with Demand Uncertainty by Thomas E. Callarman* and Robert S. Hamrin* * Received December 1982 Revised...