The Strategic Backbone of Manufacturing: An Analysis of Sipper and Bulfin’s "Production Planning, Control, and Integration"
The word "Integration" in the title is the most critical. Many books teach MRP in one chapter and JIT in another, but Sipper explicitly shows how they conflict and complement each other. He introduces the concept of and early Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) logic, explaining how financial, marketing, and production data must share a single source of truth. Title: The Strategic Backbone of Manufacturing: An Analysis