Master Planning

Aims:

Top-level planning is essential for companies aiming to be profitable whilst delivering customer satisfaction. The translation of company strategy into business plans and practical plans and schedules requires excellent master planning. This is one of the more difficult tasks for a management team to accomplish consistently and successfully. It requires accurate information, sound judgement and the good management of interdepartmental politics, resolving the natural conflicts that may exist between the objectives of the departments involved.

Target audience:

This course is aimed at all those involved in converting demand in the marketplace and the company business strategy into an achievable supply plan.

Course content:

• Demand planning and demand management - forecasting, order servicing and other demand
• Source data for forecasting
• Forecasting techniques
• Order entry and customer service
• Business planning
• Sales and operations planning - concepts and implementation
• Resource planning - medium to long-term capacity planning
• Concepts of master production scheduling
• Developing and managing the MPS
• Rough cut capacity planning - short to medium-term capacity planning
• Final assembly scheduling
• Linkages with other manufacturing and business functions
• Management implications of master planning