| Article ID: | iaor19911926 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Start Page Number: | 34 |
| End Page Number: | 38 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1990 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Ware Norman, Fogarty Donald W. |
Better communication in, and education about, master production scheduling could result from assigning different meanings to these similar terms. This distinction offers a new approach to the ‘available to promise’ and ‘projected available’ concepts that makes them easier to grasp. ‘Projected on-hand’ rather than ‘projected available’ should be used to describe the projected end-of-period inventory.