Effective Production Planning

Planning plays a central role within Operations because the choices made in Planning and ERP system configuration have significant impacts in performance throughout the Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It is important to develop an awareness of how these decisions affect results, to guide their development to a level of operational excellence Lean World Class®.

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course, participants will know:

• What are the Best Practices of Production Planning
• Set up and configure the Planning process, from the Forecast of the Application to the issuance of the Production Order.
• Configure The parameterization of different materials and resources
  • Main Master Data For the proper functioning of the planning system
  • Production logistics parameters
  • Parameters for the calculation of Productive Capacity

TOPICS COVERED

Introduction     ​

• Production strategies
• Types of production processes
• Planning Hierarchy

Sales&Operations Planning​

• The S&OP process
• Hints of Demand Planning

Resource Planning​

• Definition
• Bill of Resource

Master Scheduling Process​

• Goals
• The disaggregation of the production plan
• The MPS grid.
• Master Scheduling in different production strategies
• ATP: Available-to-Promise
• Planning intervals

Rough process Cut Capacity Planning​

• The process
• Managing imbalances

Materials management policies​

• Factors determining the lot
• Lot sizing techniques
• The security escort
• Methods of stock restoration (Re Order Point - ROP, 2 Bin etc...)

Learning by Doing session: calculation of different parameters

Material Requirements Planning​

• The inputs
• The outputs
• Low level code
• MRP logic
• Factors influencing the material plan

Capacity planning​

• Capacity planning
• The information used in capacity planning
• Production lead time
• Capacity calculation
• The data for load calculation

Learning by Doing session: calculation of capacity and load profile

Capacity Requirements Planning​

• The tail
• Infinite and finite capacity load
• Scheduling
• Capacity management
• Data used in the CRP
• The process
• How the load is determined
• Balancing the load
• Advantages and disadvantages of CRP

Practical exercises, simulations and business cases
The training will be enhanced by application examples on some ERPs

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