Master Planning Course

Top level planning is essential for companies who aim to satisfy customers and make profits. The translation of company strategy into business plans and practical plans and schedules requires good Master Planning. This is one of the more difficult tasks for a management team to accomplish consistently and successfully. It requires good, accurate information, sound judgement, and the avoidance of inter-departmental politics. It must resolve the natural conflict that exists in the various objectives of the departments involved.

Topics covered on this course will include:

• Demand management - forecasting, order servicing, other demand
• Source data for forecasting
• Forecasting techniques
• Order entry and customer service
• Business planning
• Sales and Operations Planning - concepts and implementation
• Resource Planning - long term capacity planning
• Concepts of Master Production Scheduling
• Developing and managing the MPS
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning - medium term capacity planning
• Final Assembly Scheduling
• Linkages with other manufacturing and business functions
• Management implications of Master Planning

The course will help the participants to develop, or be more aware of the processes to create, Sales and Operations Plans, Resource Plans, Master Schedules and the Final Assembly Schedule, using the demand coming in from the marketplace. The content will enable those involved to become more effective, and will provide management with an insight into how they should fit into the total company processes.

Cost: Members: £680 Non-members: £780

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