...S.C. Koh; M.H. Jones; S.M. Saad; S. Arunachalam; A. Gunasekaran Many uncertainties in Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems are treated as “controllable” elements, with a variety of buffering, dampening and other approaches being used to cope with them. However, such approaches are often...

...Marcello Braglia; Alberto Petroni This paper present the results of a study of material requirements planning (MRP) implementation in the packaging machinery‐building industry. The research, in particular, has addressed such issues as management and employee responses and the actual versus expected...

...Gerhard Plenert Takes the development of a new optimization process for production scheduling and develops it into a systematic‐mathematical algorithm. Tests this algorithm against a simulated production environment and compares the generated schedules against those generated by EOQ, MRP, JIT...

...Mac Exon‐Taylor Production scheduling is being focused on increasingly as a critical company activity. Consequently, it is becoming commonplace to hear of finite capacity scheduling systems being linked to existing MRP‐type systems, to provide a more detailed and flexible scheduling mechanism...

...Simon Sutton For many manufacturing companies reaching forward into Europe. Just‐in‐time (JIT) implementation is merely the start of the race. This may be difficult for those in the materials function who saw MRP as the be‐all‐and‐end‐all. Yet the integrated supply chain (ISC) cannot be tackled...

... management MRP Just‐in‐time 32 LOGISTICS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 5,2 C ompanies must strike a balance between inventory investment and customer service levels. Cost minimization is a major factor in obtaining this balance. New Developments in Inventory and Materials Management Pei-Jung Hsieh and Brian H...