This course is aimed at all those who are involved in converting the demand in the marketplace and the company business strategy into an achievable supply plan.
Top-level planning is essential for companies aiming to be profitable whilst delivering customer satisfaction.The translation of company strategy into business plans and practical plans and schedules requires excellent master planning.
This is one of the more difficult tasks for a management team to accomplish consistently and successfully.It requires accurate information,sound judgement and the good management of interdepartmental politics,resolving the natural conflict that may exist between the objectives of the departments involved.
Topics covered in this course will include:
- Demand planning and 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 – medium to long-term capacity planning
- Concepts of master production scheduling
- Developing and managing the MPS
- Rough cut capacity planning – short to medium-term capacity planning
- Final assembly scheduling
- Linkages with other manufacturing and business functions
- Management implications of master planning
The three-day course will help delegates to develop and to be more aware of the processes to create sales and operations plans, resource plans, master schedules and the final assembly
schedule. This will enable you to become more effective and provide management with an insight into how the top level plans of the organisation should be created and developed to improve
customer satisfaction.
Fees: Members - £700; Non-members - £800
To book, contact Judith Bentley. Tel: 01536 740166. Email: pd@iomnet.org.uk
