Strategic Production Planning, Scheduling and Control

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PROGRAMME OUTLINE

1. Introduction to production planning and control

• Purpose of production planning, order sequencing, production scheduling and production control
• Manufacturing operation process - production philosophy
• Advantages of production control
• Sources of production control
• Characteristics of modern manufacturing management - MRP II process 

2. Frame work of production planning and control

• Problems faced by production managers in perse manufacturing units
• Resolving the issues                                                   
• Strategies for production planning and control 

3. Master Production Scheduling (MPS)

• Forecasting and demand management
• Master production scheduling (MPS) activity
• Symptoms of MPS
• Aggregate planning
• Work exercises   

4. Capacity Requirement Planning

• Capacity management and planning
• Types of capacity planning
• Factors affecting facility and capacity planning

5. Materials Requirement Planning (MRP II)

• MRPII overview
• Independent and dependent demands
• Materials planning process

6. Inventory Control (IC)

• Inventory planning involving management and control
• Finished good inventories control
• Calculations on lot order sizing

7. Production Scheduling and Technique

• Scheduling objectives
• Job scheduling –Forward/Back scheduling
• Input/Output control
• Dispatching rules –FIFS, ODD, SPT. etc
• Critical ratio rule 

8. Theory of constraint (TOC) principles

• What is TOC? 
• Bottleneck and non bottleneck resources
• Generic TOC principles
• Drum-buffer-rope (DBR) scheduling 

9. Just-In-Time Manufacturing

• Principles of JIT
• Identify the causes of JIT wastes
• JIT manufacturing key activities and its features
• JIT implementation and its draw back.
• Continuous improvement
• The primary causes of inventories
• Schedule released and planned areas