The book provides the basic framework for those opting for a career of specialisation as production manager is confronted with the task of analysing and forecasting the production needs, managing production activities, planning production requirements, making strategic production decisions etc. This standard text provides a comprehensive and elegant treatment on all aspects of materials management. The aim of this text is to present the principles and basics of materials management as a conceptual framework. Marketing meets the needs of markets by producing economic values which, while not so tangible, are qualitatively just as real and quantitatively more significant than those produced in agriculture, mining, and manufacturing. This book discuss the various structural design and organisational problems of production management.
