This Handbook attempts to present the production-management system as part of a larger, often complicated business system, at the same time bearing in mind the needs of student working for such examinations as the Diploma in Management studies, The Certificate and Diploma in industrial Management, and the examination of the relevant professional bodies.
Our Own Enthusiasm for the new approaches to production and inventory control is easy to discern throughout this book, but we have omitted any mathematics beyond the simplest algebra and mentioned the computer only where necessary to add meaning to the topic under discussion.