In today’s competitive global and business environment, it is essential to have a thorough knowledge and understanding of production planning and scheduling so as to reduce the overall manufacturing costs and thus improve productivity. Production planning and scheduling are concerned with the volume and timing of outputs, the utilization of operations capacity, forecasting and developing material requirement plans, managing inventory, and managing for world class competition, just-in-time manufacturing and managing for quality.
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Upon actively participating in this course, you will be able to:
Appreciate the roles of production planning, scheduling and control, and its objectives, functions.
Exercise and enhance your forecasting skills by applying proven methods.
Understand the benefits of aggregate planning and identify the suitable aggregate planning methods for your production plan.
Understand the principles of demand and capacity management, and Master Production Scheduling mechanism.
Identify the process of creating accurate and feasible Master Scheduling for Production (MPS).
Benefits, principles and mechanisms of Material Requirement Planning (MRP).
Elevate material planning linkage to operational effectiveness.
Reports, evaluation tools and techniques for the analysis of production problems.
Acquire various production planning and control tools.
Improve your production efficiency, save time, cost and inventory.
Extend your professional skills and add your career value.
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