...Curtis Walker; Nesa L’abbe Wu This paper justifies the need for moving indirect production planning costing in the book manufacturing industry toward direct production planning costing. Principles of activity based costing are utilized to accomplish this feat. This paper develops a methodology...

... a set of differentiated products or derivatives (Wheelwright and Clark, 1992). Japan Motor industry Product development Product planning Meyer (1997) focuses on the efficiency of the development and production of derivative products. In particular, from the production and assembly...

... Kitting Product planning The objective of this research is to provide a methodology for grouping parts of an RTA product during the process of its manufacture. The methodology focuses on easing the customer’s assembly process, but can also include objectives relating to manufacturing efficiencies...