Overview

Tom's other books include Sales Forecasting: A New Approach, Sales & Operations Planning: The How-To Handbook, and ERP: Making It Happen. Bob Stahl has spent the last 30 years on leading edge processes for manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain management.

He is a developer, teacher, writer, and consultant with an extremely strong track record of successes. Bob is a founding partner of the Supply-Chain Partnership. First it presents the fundamentals of Master Scheduling in a clear, concise, and complete manner. It's simple and easy to understand. Second it explains the relationship between master scheduling and supply chain management, lean manufacturing and efficient consumer response.

Table of Contents

Master Scheduling Overview - Where Do you meet the Customer? The logic of Master Scheduling - The Demand side Managing the Forecast - Managing Customer Orders – Capacity and Material Planning - Schedules for Plants and Suppliers - Building to stock -Building to Customer Order - The Master Schedule’s Job - Making Master Scheduling Work

Review from Venkadesh Narayanan, Principal Consultant, Fhyzics