Traditipn Production Planning and Control
Traditipn Production Planning and Control
Traditipn Production Planning and Control
PLANNING and
CONTROL
What is production planning control?
CP
- is the process of determining the production capacity needed
by an organization to meet changing demands for its products. In the
context of capacity planning, design capacity is the maximum
amount of work that an organization is capable of completing in a
given period.
Shop Floor Control
Inventory management is different from inventory
control, and its important that distributors understand
the difference.
Inventory control regulates the inventory that is already in
a distributor's warehouse.
Inventory management includes the activities of forecasting
and product replenishment.
Some of these functions are performed by the
departments in the firm other than the production
control department.
Forcasting- is concerned with projecting or predicting the
future sales activity of the firm’s products. Sales forecasts are
often classified according to the time horizon over which they
attempt to estimate. Long range (5yrs or more), Intermediate
range (1 to 2 yrs in advanced), Short term range (3 to 6
months future).
Production planning- sometime called aggregate production
planning and its objective is to establish general production
levels for product groups over the next year and so on.
Process planning- involves determining the sequences of
manufacturing operations required to produce a certain
product and or it’s components.
Estimating- for purposes of determining prices, predicting
costs, and preparing schedules, the firm will determine
estimates of the manufacturing lead times and production
costs of its product.
- Master scheduling – it must be translated into master
schedule which specifies how many units of each product
are to be delivered and when. Master schedule must be
converted into purchase orders for raw materials, orders for
components from outside vendors, and production schedule
for parts made in the shop.
Requirements planning- the individual components and
subassemblies that make up each product must be planned.
Raw materials must be ordered to make up each product
must be planned.
Problems with Traditional Production Planning and
Control
The types of problems commonly encountered in the planning
and control of production are the following: