Introduction to Materials Management, Global Edition, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (June 23, 2016) © 2017
  • Steve Chapman
  • Ann K. Gatewood
  • Tony Arnold
  • Lloyd M. Clive

Title overview

For all courses in Materials Management, Production, Inventory Control, and Logistics taught in business and industrial technology departments of community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities.

Understand all elements of production planning and control, and how they fit together with Introduction to Materials Management.

Clearly written and exceptionally user-friendly, this text covers all the essentials of modern supply chain management, manufacturing planning and control systems, purchasing, and physical distribution. Content, examples, questions, and problems lead students step-by-step to mastery. Widely adopted by colleges and universities worldwide, this is the only APICS-listed reference text for the Basics of Supply Chain Management (BSCM) CPIM certification examination.

Hallmark Approach

  • Resonates with a wide audience of students in materials management and supply chain courses. Simple, clear, and readable,this accessible text avoids unnecessarily complex mathematics.
  • Helps students understand all elements of production planning and control, and how they fit together. Comprehensive explanations of the essentials of production planning and control include production planning systems, master scheduling, MRP, capacity management, and production activity control.
  • Prepares students for success in organisations that use APICS methods and APICS certification. This title is the only primary reference for key APICS Certification courses including Basics of Supply Chain Management and Detailed Scheduling and Planning. It helps students prepare for APICS certification by mastering APICS concepts, techniques, and vocabulary.
  • Prepares students for any role in inventory management. Three full chapters on inventory management introduce core techniques ranging from setting order quantities to utilising independent demand ordering systems.

New to this Edition

  • UPDATED: Covers all the issues students will need to be familiar with to succeed with modern materials management. Wide-ranging, up-to-date topic coverage includes ISO standards, KPI, Theory of Constraints, Project Management, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR), continuous work in process (CONWIP), 4th party logistics (4PL), sustainability and much more.
  • UPDATED: Helps students test, apply, and deepen their knowledge. Extensive pedagogical features include chapter introductions and summaries, Key Terms, margin icons, questions, and problems (solutions provided for approximately 50% of problems). Many end-of-chapter problems have been revised, and some new ones added.
  • UPDATED: Allows students to apply concepts in the context of real businesses. Nine new end-of-chapter case studies allow students to explore and apply chapter concepts in more detail and in the context of real business situations.
  • NEW: Discusses concepts in non-manufacturing settings. Since students will often have more experience with non-manufacturing businesses, new features help readers understand the concept in a familiar setting.
  • UPDATED: Helps students understand the importance of the field at a higher level. The discussion on the purpose and impact of strategic planning—including environmental and sustainability issues—is greatly expanded to include impacts and benefits to society as a whole.
  • NEW: Provides a brief introduction to project management. A brief overview gives students an introduction to project management concepts, showing how they relate to materials management and are implemented in companies.
  • UPDATED: Expansion of Theory of Constraint (TOC) coverage. TOC provides an interesting alternative method to think about the concepts in the book and can help overall learning as students compare and contrast TOC with non-TOC approaches.
  • UPDATED: Significant expansion of demand management. The expansion of forecasting as only a part of overall demand management provides students with a higher level understanding of where demand comes from and how to understand and manage it more effectively.

Table of contents

  1. 1. Introduction to Materials Management
  2. 2. Production Planning System
  3. 3. Master Scheduling
  4. 4. Material Requirements Planning
  5. 5. Capacity Management
  6. 6. Production Activity Control
  7. 7. Purchasing
  8. 8. Forecasting and Demand Management
  9. 9. Inventory Fundamentals
  10. 10. Order Quantities
  11. 11. Independent Demand Ordering Systems
  12. 12. Physical Inventory and Warehouse Management
  13. 13. Physical Distribution
  14. 14. Products and Processes
  15. 15. Lean Production
  16. 16. Total Quality Management

Author bios

About our authors

Stephen N. Chapman, PhD CPIM-F, CSCP, is a retired (emeritus) faculty member from the Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University. He has also served on the faculties at The University of Iowa and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has also had visiting faculty positions with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Prior to his academic career he held managerial positions in materials management at Northern Telecom and NSK Bearing Company. He was also a senior consultant with Deloitte Consulting. He holds an undergraduate degree and an MBA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. He also currently serves as chair of the CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) Certification Committee for ASCM (the Association for Supply Chain Management).

Ann K. Gatewood has worked in the operations and supply chain industry for 36 years. She specializes in delivering quality adult education and training materials in the areas of business processes, ERP, operations and supply chain management, lean manufacturing, strategic planning, change management and performance measurement. In addition, she has successfully managed ERP system implementations for numerous organizations in a variety of industries around the world, as well as authoring and delivering customized ERP courses. She has served on the ASCM/APICS certification committee for 23 years, and holds the CPIM-F, CIRM, CSCP-F and CLTD-F certifications. She brings current, real-world experience to the book, including best practices in the areas of supply chain management.

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