PRODUCTION: Planning, Control and Integration

Sipper & Bulfin

ERRATA SHEET
Page is the page number in the book, line is the number of lines from the top of the page, excluding
tables, figures, headings etc. A negative line number is counted from the bottom of the page. Action is
the correction to be made.
Page Line

Action
Insert the sentence "Alisha Waller, Macalester University and Leon McGinnis, Georgia Tech
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provided helpful advice for several chapters." between "book." and "Peter Purdue"
38 5
Replace "lead time" by "lead times"
97 Prob Replace "18" by "16" in time axis of figures (b), (c) and (d) of problem 4.8
98 Prob Replace "18" by "16" in the time axis of figure (e) of problem 4.8
129 Tab Replace "1.25" by "1.26" for Quarter 3 Average in Table 4-12
129 -3 Should be S13 = alpha(d13 /C9) + (1-alpha) (S12+B12) = 0.15(97/0.51) + 0.85(182.33) = 183.51
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152 2
152 8

Replace "178.83" by "183.51" and "5.15" by "5.6"

Replace "178.83" by "183.51" and "0.516" by "0.51"
Insert "do not" between "we" and "need"
Delete sentence "The new ... 0.37."
Replace "(1.78.83+5.15)1.86" by "(1.83.57+5.6)1.87" and "342.21" by "354"
Replace "(1.78.83+4x5.15)0.52" by "(1.83.57+4x5.6)0.51" by "105"
Replace "FT = 107" by "FT+1 = 107" and "dT = 97" by "dT+1 = 97"

191 8+

Replace "smoothed estimate of forecast errors" by "sum of forecast errors"

Replace "ri" by "pi" everywhere in the formula

191 9

Replace "ri is the production rate for" by "pi is the time (in periods) to make"

Replace "Goode Foods (Problem 5.19)" by "Consumer Electronics (Problem 5.18)" in problem
5.26
Replace "Goode Foods (Problem 5.19)" by "Consumer Electronics (Problem 5.18)" in Problem
198 Prob
5.28
193 Prob

198 Prob Replace capacity columns of table in problem 5.29 with

Month Machine Worker
1
1350
19000
2
1270
19000
224 6

3
1350
19500
"= 1605" should be "= 1572" the rest of the problem is correct if 1605 is used.

236 6

Replace "+(sumici Qi" by "+ (lamda sumi ciQi"

244 Prob Replace "EPQ case with backlog." by "EPQ case without backlog." in Problem 6.18.
264 -2 Replace "-72/24D" by "-62/24D"
Sentence should be: If we examine Figure 6-19, the general shortage probability is (1-F(z)), where
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F(z)=alpha is a specific value selected.
280 Tab Replace "D" by D with an overbar in row 2 column 1 of Table 6-13
285 15 Replace "(50+(40)(0.75))" by "(50+(4)(0.75))"
285 15 Replace "126" by "102.96"
285 -13 Replace "126" by "102.96"
295 Prob

Insert "and the cost of the additive is $60 per pound." between "$170 per order." and "A fill rate" in
Problem 6.92

295 Prob Add "Ordering cost is $400 per order." after "holding cost is 20 percent." in Problem 6.94
301 Tab Replace "244778" by "24478" in row 1, column 6 of Table 6-19
315 Prob Replace "500, 62, 750," by "500, 625, 750," in Problem 6.113
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327 -8

Insert "policy" between "updated inventory" and "proposed by"

Replace "Dit" by "Dik " in equation (3)

Add "Assume each product requires the same capacity at each work center." after "MPS that is
feasible."
407 Tab Replace "2" by "1" in Row A column D and "3" by "2" in Row B column D of Table 8-14
377 2

418 Prob Insert "with 40 added to each due date," between "Problem 8.9" and "find the" in Problem 8.12
418 Prob Replace the pj data by
j 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
pj 2 11 14 15 9 7 3 12 9 6
420 7
420 13

Replace "65" by "60"

Replace "noon" by "7AM"

Add "Credle, R., Finite Scheduling Helps Eaton Cut Line Setups and Increase Line Throughput,
450 Box Case History: Scheduling, APICS -- The Performance Advantage , January, 30-32 (1993)." at
the end of the text in Box 8-2
Replace "L4 = min{L4, LS4-6} = min {12, 7} = 7" by "L4 = min{L4, LS4-6} = min {14, 7} = 7"
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478 Tab Replace "min {12, 7}" by "min {14, 7}" in row 6, last column of Table 9-5
483 10
484 7

Replace "20" by "22" in Problem 9.17

Replace "instead of three" by "instead of two" in part (g) of Problem 9.25

491 -5

Replace "3-4 and 5-9 can" by "3-4 and 5-6 can"

517 7
520 2

Bad spacing between problems 9.46 and 9.47

Replace "$10,000" by "$5,000"

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Replace "on realease time" by "on release time"

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582 -2

Replace "Demand is 500" by "Demand is 300"

Replace "An operation is processed" by "An operation processed"

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Replace "1, determined" by "1 determined"