Data for Production Planning and Control

Abstract

This chapter commences with a discussion of the use and non-use of data within manufacturing and proceeds by investigating measures of optimality used to assess the benefits of an efficient and effective planning and control system indicating the commonly used approaches to production planning and control and the data needs of these techniques. Finally, we present models for typical manufacturing firms which have been derived from a series of case studies. Operating practices in small and larger manufacturing firms are compared so as to deduce optimal approaches to their production planning and control systems and their implied data requirements.