Handbook of Production Management Methods

Handbook of Production Management Methods (PDF File)

by Halevi Gideon

“Manufacturing processes require a knowledge of many disciplines, including
design, process planning, costing, marketing, sales, customer relations, costing, purchasing, bookkeeping, inventory control, material handling, shipping and so on. It is unanimously agreed that each discipline in the manufacturing process must consider the interests of other disciplines. These interests of the different disciplines may conflict with one another, and a compromise must be made. Managers and the problems they wish to solve in their organization set particular requirements, and compromises are made by ‘weighting’ each of these requirements. Different organizations will have different needs and thus differently weighted requirements….”