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Volume 24, Issue 5
1 May 1986
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Review Article| May 01 1986

Production Management: The Art of the Possible Available to Purchase

K.G. Lockyer
K.G. Lockyer
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6070
Print ISSN: 0025-1747
© MCB UP Limited
1986
Management Decision (1986) 24 (5): 32–36.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001416

A satisfactory manufacturing policy can be drawn up systematically—amendments can them be audited. There are five axioms to take into account, three unities to preserve and the five Ps characterising the production management function. These, with SWOT analyses, provide a matrix by which policy can be examined.

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