MATERIALS MANAGEMENT A SUPPLY CHAIN PERSPECTIVE: TEXT AND CASES, Edition 3

A. K. CHITALE · R. C. GUPTA

Oct 2014 · PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

About this ebook

This textbook, now in its third edition, continues to provide a compre-hensive coverage of the different aspects of materials management in a student-friendly manner. The book gives a clear introduction to materials management, and discusses topics such as classification, codification, specifications and standardization of materials, which aid in effective purchasing. In view of their economic importance, materials planning and budgeting too have been covered in sufficient detail. Besides explaining the fundamental principles of stores management and materials handling, the text gives an in-depth analysis of inventory control with several illustrative examples. It also highlights the principles of purchasing, nature of purchasing process, value analysis and quality assurance. Intended primarily for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of production engineering/industrial management and engineering, and postgraduate students of management, this book would also be useful to the practising managers. New to this edition • Incorporates two new chapters on: – Supply Chain Management covering practically all the aspects of SCM – Customer Relationship Management • Includes four new case studies pertaining to inventory control applied to supply chain management

About the author

A.K. Chitale, Ph.D., is former Director and Academic Advisor, GSIMR, Indore. Dr. Chitale has more than four decades of teaching and research experience in Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering. He has authored a number of books on these subjects. Of these, Product Design and Manufacturing, Materials Management: Text and Cases, Product Policy and Brand Management and Organizational Behaviour: Text and Cases have been published by PHI Learning, Delhi. R.C. GUPTA, PhD, is Professor and Head, Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, SGSITS, Indore. He is also a Fellow member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants (ICWA), Kolkata, and the member of Institution of Engineers (India). He is the co-author of Materials Management: Text and Cases and Product Design and Manufacturing, 6th ed., published by PHI Learning, Delhi.