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    <title>Materials management: procedures, text and cases</title>
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    <namePart>Datta, A. K.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>PHI Learning</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>xiv, 404 p. ill. ;</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Dynamics of materials management -- Systems approach to materials management -- Forecasting, objectives and the materials organization -- Materials planning -- Purchasing -- Purchasing in materials management systems concept -- Purchasing and procurement activities under materials management -- Value analysis and value engineering -- Purchasing and quality assurance -- Incoming materials quality control -- Statistical quality control -- Purchasing capital equipment, plant and machinery -- International buying and import purchasing -- Governmental purchasing practices and procedures -- Inventory management and controls systems -- Stores management and operation --- Materials accounting, flow of costs and inventory valuation -- Material handling and storage systems -- Transportation, traffic and claims management -- Operations research and related techniques -- Materials management information systems and computer -- Economic flow of values and materials management -- Spare parts and maintenance materials control -- Material managment and productivity -- cost-effectiveness and performance measurement -- Conclusion -- Cases -- 

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  <note type="statement of responsibility">A. K. Datta</note>
  <note>Includes index</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Materials management</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">TS161.D23</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9788120312517</identifier>
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