Materials Management has acquired a new significance in the Indian context, wherein it is expected of materials manager that he would strive hard for achieving the arduous task of providing efficient service to the whole undertaking and reducing the production and distribution costs.
Materials management can perform efficiently with the specific knowledge and training. Responsible purchasing, imaginative materials planning and control, wise production scheduling, management and control, honest and purposeful stores management and inventory control need installation of a materials management system which provides scope for professionalisation. This volume aims at such a professionalisation of service to the society and the economy at large.
Section One: Introduction
- Materials Management
- Integrated Materials Management
- Organisation for Materials Management
- Problems in Materials Management
Section Two: Management of Materials
- Materials Planning and Budgeting
- Materials Identification, Codification and Standardisation
- Combined Alphabetical and Numerical System
- Inventory Control
- Materials Management in India
- Evaluation of Materials Management
Section Three: Storekeeping and Materials Handling
- Storekeeping
- The Storekeeper
- Storehouse
- Materials Handling Equipments
- Materials Handling
- Receipt of Materials
- Inspection, Preservation and Issue of Materials
- Stores Day Sheet
- Stores Accounting and Audit
- Information System for Inventory
- Management of Obsolete, Surplus and Scraps
- Transport and Traffic Management
Section Four: Purchasing
- Purchasing Organisation
- Purchasing Principles, Procedure and Systems
- Make or Buy
- Purchasing and Corporate Planning
- Buyer-Seller Relations
- Ethics of Buying and Selling
- Legal Aspect of Purchasing
- Purchasing Research and Value Analysis
- Quality Control
- Negotiation
- Buyer’s Place in Today’s Industrial Purchasing
- Import Substitution
- Import Purchasing
- Work, Motion, Time Studies and Quality Control
- Management of Project Inventory
Appendix
ISBN13:
978-81-8054-713-3
Weight:
550.00
Edition:
4th Revised Edition
Language:
English
Title Code:
242