Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Bullington, Stanley F.

Committee Member

Greenwood, Allen G.

Committee Member

Bullington, Kimball E.

Date of Degree

12-14-2001

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Industrial Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Engineering

Department

Department of Industrial Engineering

Abstract

The development of Supply Chain Management has occurred gradually over the latter half of the last century, and in this century will continue to evolve in response to the continual changes in the business environment. As organizations exhaust opportunities for internal breakthrough improvements, they will increasingly turn toward the supply chain for an additional source of untapped improvements. Manufacturers in particular can benefit from this increased focus on the chain, but the gains realized will vary by the type of supply chain. By applying basic production control principles to the chain, and effectively using tools already common at the production line level, organizations address important supply chain considerations. Both the Theory of Constraints and the factory physics principles behind the Constant WIP concepts focus on the system constraint with the aim of controlling inventory. Each can be extrapolated to focus on a system whose boundaries span the entire supply chain.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/19164

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