Oliver Wight Announces the Newly Revised Fourth Edition of Master Planning and Scheduling: An Essential Guide to Competitive Manufacturing: 4th Edition
Discover the practical, real-world advantages of the Oliver Wight master planning and scheduling methodology
NEW LONDON, N.H., Jan. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Master Planning and Scheduling: An Essential Guide to Competitive Manufacturing: 4th Edition is an indispensable guide for supply chain professionals, planners, and schedulers in all functional areas of business.
Written in the context of an ever-evolving digital environment and augmented with new and critical information required to implement best practices, the book guides practitioners, and leaders on the principles of master planning and scheduling and its application in modern and future work environments.
"The overarching driver for supply planning and supply scheduling is the master planning and scheduling set of processes. This is covered in depth in the best book ever written on the subject. Master Scheduling (Proud 2013). Suffice to say that the term master says it all – it is the master of all other detailed supply plans and schedules. Master Planning and Scheduling is the Fourth Edition of the very successful Master Scheduling book (originally released in 1994)."
--Rod Hozack, Stuart Harman, Todd Ferguson, and Dawn Howarth, authors of Integrated Tactical Planning, Oliver Wight International, Inc
A go-to guide that belongs on the bookshelves of any executive or manager who seeks to improve their understanding of how best practice planning and scheduling processes enable a business to outperform the competition through alignment, integration, and synchronization across all functions in an organization.
About the Book Authors
JOHN F. PROUD is a business advisor with Oliver Wight. Throughout his career, Mr. Proud has enjoyed collaborating with several large companies, from Lockheed Martin and Boeing to Weyerhaeuser and Starbucks. He has educated and consulted throughout the USA as well as around the free world. Numerous companies under his leadership and coaching have implemented supply chain management including master planning and scheduling best practice principles for more than 50 years. Mr. Proud was a recipient of the Who's Who Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 and will be listed in Who's Who in America in 2022.
ERIC DEUTSCH is a business advisor with Oliver Wight, working with companies to implement and improve their integrated business planning processes. He has an academic background and career experience in the biotech industry. Since starting his consulting practice, he has worked across many industries to coach and advise clients through transformational change. In addition to advising clients, he is a member of the Oliver Wight Board of Directors, and he teaches the Oliver Wight Master Planning and Scheduling Course offered publicly several times per year.
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Susan Hansen, Oliver Wight Americas, +1 (603) 526-5800, [email protected]
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