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050 00 $aTS161$b.A42 1974
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100 1 $aAmmer, Dean S.
245 10 $aMaterials management$c[by] Dean S. Ammer.
250 $a3d ed.
260 $aHomewood, Ill.,$bR.D. Irwin,$c1974.
300 $axvi, 736 pages$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aIrwin series in management and the behavioral sciences
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 715-719).
530 $aAlso issued online.
505 0 $aMachine derived contents note: 1. Introduction to materials management 1 -- Basic economics: Value added by manufacture. Value added by distri- -- bution. Criteria for adding value. Hypothetical example. Application -- to materials management. Application of principle. Scope of materials -- management: Role of purchasing. Line and staff responsibilities. His- -- tory of materials management: Evolutionary process. The first factories. -- Development of functions. Recognition of purchasing. Evolution of ma- -- terials management: Functions of materials management. Place in the -- organization. Nonmanufacturing applications. -- 2. The materials cycle 44 -- The vacuum cleaner case. The design stage. The sourcing stage. Plan- -- ning production. The ordering process. The receiving process. Inventory -- control. The final stages. Managing indirect material. -- 3. The objectives of materials management 69 -- Goals of materials management: Primary materials objectives. Sec- -- ondary objectives. Achieving objectives: Effects of business changes. -- Balancing of objectives. Policies and procedures: Advantages of ma- -- terials departments' manuals. Preparing the manual. -- 4. Organizing for materials management 88 -- Who is materials manager? Purchasing agent as materials manager. -- Dual materials management. Materials management subordinate to manu- -- facturing. The case for independence. Building the organization: Organi- -- zation by function. Organization by location. Organization by product -- or project. Organization by stage of manufacture. Span of control. Level -- of organization. Applying organization principles: The Avco-Lycoming -- Organization. The General Electric approach. Applications to service -- industries. The decentralized organization: Staf-and-line approach. Ma- -- terials staffs' activities. Results of staff-and-line organization. The orga- -- nization of the future. -- 5. Legal aspects of materials management 127 -- Basics of contracts: Possible disputes. Law of agency. Offer and accep- -- tance. Pricing. Other economic conditions: Payment terms. F.o.b. point. -- Rejection of defective goods. Failure to deliver. Other legal problems. -- Contract cancellation. Letters of intent: Typical application. De facto -- orders. Government procurement: Reasons for regulation. Advertised -- bidding. Negotiated procurement. Contract clauses. Defense materials -- system. -- 6. Forecasting for materials management 171 -- Demand for materials: Market responsibility. Independent action. Minor -- product demand. Supply of materials. 'General business forecasts: Effect -- of business conditions. Gross national product. Investment spending. -- Inventory changes. Leading indicators: NBER indicators. Purchasing -- opinion survey. Market sentiment. Price forecasts: Forecasting adminis- -- tered prices. Free market commodities. Timing of purchases. Reducing -- market risk: Averaging purchases. Budgeted buying. Hedging in futures -- markets. Last-in, first-out accounting. -- 7. Materials management planning 207 -- Achievement of objectives. Future price and availability: Price forecasts. -- Availability. Bayesian analysis: Decision under uncertainty. The Deci- -- sion Tree. Calculating expected value. Limitations. Preproduction plan- -- ning: Basic process. The Gantt chart. The PERT technique. Production -- planning: Job lots. Equipment planning. Manpower planning. Line pro- -- duction. Plan of purchase. Key-parts control. Commodity price indexes. -- Uses of indexes. -- 8. Production and inventory control basics 252 -- Scope of production control: Nonmanufacturing applications. Materials -- management function. A model production system: Application of man- -- power and equipment plans. Releases to purbhasing and manufacturing. -- Dispatching. Problems of rescheduling. Short-interval scheduling. Ex- -- pediting. Key weakness. Use of Gantt chart. The inventory objective: -- Need for inventory. Nature of the problem. Inventory functions. De- -- termining inventory levels. Job-lot ordering: Problems of control. Appli- -- cation of Bayesian rule. Modified job-lot control. Ordering for inventory: -- Two-bin system. Perpetual inventory. Critical ratio. Inventory records: -- Classification. Disposition of surplus. -- 9. Order-point and periodic control systems 296 -- A problem in order-point control. The ABC system. Determining level -- of control: Applying the principle. Statistical analysis of demand: Limi- -- tations of max-min systems. Basic factors in forecasting. Applying proba- -- bility. Averaging and smoothing techniques. Periodic ordering: Appli- -- cation. Advantages and disadvantages. Top-management control. -- 10. Analytical inventory control technique 330 -- Determining order quantity: Cost of possession. Cost of acquisition. -- EQQ formulas. Making EQQ fit the budget. EQQ for production parts. -- Weaknesses of EQQ formulas. Applications of EQQ. Determining safety -- stock: Applying probability theory. Application to ABC control. Control -- of periodic ordering: Comparison with order point. Optimum review -- period. Safety stocks. -- 11. Sourcing: Make, buy, or lease 359 -- Make-or-buy criteria. Controlling captive items. Leasing. -- 12. Finding qualified suppliers 375 -- Buying errors are costly. Channels of distribution: Buying direct. Buy- -- ing from distributors. Role of the salesman. Finding a supplier. Investi- -- gation of suppliers: Facilities. Personnel. Financial resources. Reputation. -- Developing new suppliers. Buying abroad: Why imports have grown. -- Problems in buying abroad. What to buy. Relations with foreign vendors. -- 13. The buying process 408 -- Quality is paramount: What makes quality? Buyers' specifications. Re- -- strictive specifications. Securing quotations: Exceptions to quotations. -- Analysis of quotations. Selecting the supplier. Placement and delivery. -- Sale of scrap and surplus. -- 14. Problems in supplier relations 437 -- Delivery failure: The shortage plan. Anticipating shortages. Quality -- failure: Basic inspection problems. Statistical inference. Supplier quality -- problems. Quality certification. Problems in source selection: Reciprocity. -- Back-door selling. Personal purchases. Local purchases. Ethics: Gifts -- and entertainment. Ethical behavior. Promoting supplier goodwill. -- 15. Traffic and physical distribution 476 -- The traffic function: Basic responsibilities. Picking the carrier. Small -- shipments. Routing, delays, and damage. Tariffs of common carriers: -- Economics of rate structures. Class and commodity rates. Cost-reduction -- opportunities: Auditing freight bills. Charter truck. Other cost-reduction -- techniques. Specific projects. -- 16. Purchase price analysis 504 -- The pricing process: Imperfect competition. Administered prices. Sup- -- pliers' cost estimates: Direct material cost. Direct-labor cost. Overhead. -- Cost-volume relationship. Using cost data: Applying the cost-volume -- principle. Buyer cost estimates. The learning curve. -- 17. Negotiation with suppliers 530 -- Negotiation with low bidder. Fixed-price items. Negotiating price in- -- creases: Justifying the increase. Cost analysis. Error in supplier pricing. -- Principles of negotiation: Basic rules. The negotiating session. -- 18. Cost-reduction techniques 555 -- Value analysis: Organizing for value analysis. Value analysis techniques. -- Selling value analysis. Standardization: The standardization program. -- How to standardize. Linear programming: The transportation problem. -- Solving the problem. Other applications. Monte Carlo simulation: Basic -- principles. Application to dispatching. Other applications. Capital equip- -- ment analysis: MAPI formulas. Other approaches. Preproduction purchase -- analysis. -- 19. Control of administrative costs, 600 -- Paper work is costly. Clerical quality control. Short cuts with forms: -- Special ordering procedures. Combining forms. Forms design.
505 0 $aIntegrated -- data processing. Electronic data processing: Advantages of electronic -- data processing. Problems with electronic data processing. A typical -- application. -- 20. Measuring materials management performance 632 -- Developing the program. Control of operating costs: Control of person- -- nel. Control of direct costs. Comparison with results. Control of prices: -- The materials budget. Cost-reduction reports. Price indexes. Inventory -- performance. Supplier performance: The quality objective. The delivery -- objective. Vendor rating. Development of personnel: High-potential -- employees. Developing managers. Good records. -- 21. The future of materials management 671 -- Organization behavior: Sources of support. Timing of change. Politico- -- economic change: Decentralization. Full-employment economy. Auto- -- mation and the supply process. Automation in the office. Materials -- management and EDP: Applications of EDP. The systems approach. -- Development of the profit center: Criteria for profit center. Profit center -- accounting. Purpose of the profit center. Ground rules. Advantages of the -- profit center. Profit-center problems. Use of index numbers. Production -- versus nonproduction.
650 0 $aMaterials management.
650 7 $aMaterials management.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01011942
776 08 $iOnline version:$aAmmer, Dean S.$tMaterials management.$b3d ed.$dHomewood, Ill., R.D. Irwin, 1974$w(OCoLC)609225082
830 0 $aIrwin series in management and the behavioral sciences.
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