Inventory and Production Management in Supply Chains

The context and importance of inventory management and production planning -- The importance of inventory management and production planning and scheduling -- Frameworks for inventory management and production planning and schedul-ing -- Forecasting models and techniques -- Replenishment systems for managing individual item inventories within a rm -- Order quantities with level demand -- Lot sizing with time-varying demand -- Individual items with probabilistic demand -- Special classes of items -- Managing the most important inventories -- Managing slow-moving and low-value (Class C) inventories -- Style goods and perishable items -- Managing inventory across multiple locations and multiple rms -- Coordinated replenishments at a single stocking point -- Multiechelon inventory management -- Coordinating inventory management in the supply chain -- Production management -- An overall framework for production planning & scheduling -- Medium-range aggregate production planning -- Material requirements planning and its extensions -- Just-in-time, optimized production technology and short range pro-duction scheduling -- Summary.