- Production Planning and Control (PPC)
- Defining production planning and control
- Areas of influence on PPC
- A framework for a PPC system
- PPC systems activities
- Productivity in production environment
- Demand management
- Demand management in PPC systems
- Independent and dependent demand
- Forecasting framework
- Forecasting techniques
- Evaluating forecasts
- Capacity planning
- Measuring capacity
- Capacity utilization
- Calculating capacity requirements
- Cost volume analysis
- Break even analysis
- Decision tree
- Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
- S&OP fundamentals
- S&OP displays
- Time phased planning
- Modifying the S&OP
- The basic trade-offs in S&OP
- Evaluating alternative plans
- Inventory management
- Types of inventory
- Inventory costs
- Economic order quantity model
- Inventory order cycle
- Reorder point
- Economic production quantity
- Multi criteria ABC analysis
- Requirements planning and scheduling
- Master production scheduling activities
- Master production scheduling techniques:
- The time phased record
- Available to promise
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Bill of material
- MRP processing
- The basic MRP record
- Material planning for:
- Lot-for-Lot
- Different lot sizes
- Performance measurement
- Key performance indicators
- Benchmarking and standards
- Measuring performance
- Improving current production system