TY  - BOOK
AU  - Datta,A.K
TI  - Materials management: procedures, text and cases 
SN  - 9788120312517 (pbk)
U1  - 658.5 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - PHP Learning
KW  - Management
N1  - _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
ER  -