Production Planning Master Class

This Master Class can be undertaken by coach supported distance learning or, for a group of participants, as a face to face, tutor led event. A further option would be to blend these approaches.

Content
1. Concepts of Production Planning

• Defining a production planning cycle
• Selecting and implementing a forecasting system
• The elements of production planning
• The purposes of production planning within the supply chain
• The links between production planning, sales planning and forecasting
• Demand management and forecasting techniques

2. Fundamentals of Production Planning

• Basic master scheduling terminology and process.
• Producing a master production schedule.
• The purposes and management of rough cut capacity planning.
• Producing a rough cut capacity plan.
• The uses, processing and management of bills of materials.
• Constructing a bill of materials.
• The purposes of capacity requirement planning.
• Producing a capacity requirement plan.
• The responsibilities of production control.
• Basic scheduling concepts

3. Current Manufacturing and Materials Planning Systems

• Relating the basic principles of production planning to modern manufacturing and control systems.
• Comparing the effectiveness of various systems against the basic production planning processes
• Planning and organising a benchmarking project in the production planning area
• Reviewing the implications of globalisation on production planning processes
• Developing a project for the implementation of information systems to support production planning processes.

Professional Diploma in Logistics and Transport

The course also addresses the requirements of the Production Planning module of the Professional Diploma in Logistics and Transport and therefore by completing this course, students will, by default, be completing a significant part of an internationally recognised qualification.