Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise

Preface.- The Historical Foundations of Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems.- Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems: The Quest to Leverage ERP for Better Planning.- The Transition to Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing.- Uncertainty and Production Planning.- Demand Forcasting Problems in Production Planning.- Production Capacity: Its Bases, Functions and Measurement.- Data in Production and Supply Chain Planning.- Challenges in Financial Modeling.- Field Based Research on Production Control.- Collaborative Supply Chain Management.- Sequencing Strategies and Coordination.- Issues in Outsourcing and Subcontracting Operations.- Inventory Management: Information, Coordination and Rationality.- Pricing, Variety and Inventory Decisions for Product Lines of Subsititutable Items.- Managing Perishable and Aging Inventories: Review and Future Research Directions.- Optimization Models of Production Planning Problems.- Aggregate Modeling of Manufacturing Systems.- Robust Stability Analysis of Decentralized Supply Chains.- Simulation in Production Planning: An Overview with Emphasis on Recent Developments in Cycle Time Estimation.- Simulation Optimization in Support of Tectical and Strategic Enterprise Decisions.