Master Planning of Resources
Explore processes used to develop sales and operations plans, and identify and assess internal and external demands and forecasting requirements. The course focuses on the importance of producing achievable master schedules that are consistent with business policies, objectives, and resource constraints.
Objectives:
- Explain the master planning model and key planning elements
- Describe the characteristics of and identify data sources for business planning in different operational environments
- Describe the concepts and identify the basic techniques of demand forecasting
- Identify the impact of various distribution strategies and the distribution network structure
- Describe the methods and understand the nature of distribution planning
- Explain the basic concepts of transportation and freight management
- Identify customer service policies, sources of customer demand, elements of actual demand, techniques for communicating with customers, and measurements of forecast accuracy
- Describe types of orders and explain the concept of order promising
- Explain the formats for make-to-stock and make-to-order environments
- Describe the processes of resource and rough-cut capacity planning
- Explain the concept, format and process of master scheduling
- Conduct an exercise for master scheduling
- Describe the methods of structuring bills of materials for master scheduling
- Explain the concept of multilevel master scheduling and the final assembly schedule
Session Topics:
- Business Planning Process
- Forecasting Demand
- Distribution Planning Process
- Demand Management and Customer Service
- Sales and Operations Planning Process
- Master Scheduling Process
- Managing the Master Scheduling Process
- Validating the Plan and Measuring Performance
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