Materials management: procedures, text and cases / by A.K. Datta

_contents:
1. introduction:
2. system approach to material management;
3. forecasting objectives and the materials organization;
4. materials planning;
5. purchasing and procurement activities under materials management;
6. purchasing in materials management system concept;
7. purchasing
8. value analysis and value engineering;
9. purchasing and quality assurance;
10. incoming material quality control;
11. statistical quality control;
12. purchasing capital equipment, plant and machinery;
13. international buying and import purchasing;
14.governmental purchasing practice and procedures;
-PART 2
15. inventory management and control systems;
16. stores management and operation;
17.materials accounting, flow of costs and inventory valuation, physical verification, security and materials audit;
18. materials handing and storage system; physical distribution logistics;
19. transportation, traffic and claims management;
_PART 3:
20. operations research and related techniques;
21. materials management information system and computer;
_PART 4
22. economic flow of values and materials management;
23. spare parts and maintenance control and obsolete scrap or process waste and surplusmaterails disposals;
24. materials management and productivity;
25. cost-effectiveness and performance measurement;
26. conclusion;
_PART 5:
27. case studies