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Production Planning and Inventory Control, 2nd ed. S. Narasimhan, D. McLeavey, and P. Billington, authors 1995 Prentice-Hall xiii + 716 pp.
The book has a good overall view of the manufacturing enterprise and where the production planning and inventory control function fits within that enterprise. Particularly enjoyable were the sections on control activities, which attempted to cover the differing production and inventory control structures for just-in-time, traditional job shop, and optimized...