Every manufacturer needs a production planning process that meets customer expectations and supports corporate objectives.
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Numerous factors affect how production should be planned: customer orders, current inventory, material needs, resource capacities and costs — all of which complicate accurate and efficient production planning.
Production planning aims to balance demand and supply resources
via competitive, profit‑focused decisions.
To design production planning correctly, relationships with other planning processes must be defined clearly.
Decisions made during production planning can generally be examined on three levels:
Success in production planning depends on the accurate design of production planning, capacity planning, material planning, and detailed scheduling processes, as well as their rapid and systematic management.
There are some fundamental practices valid for every organization in production planning. Especially in creating orders and determining related material needs, standard practices and software can be used.
However, how Production Planning should be designed, in line with the production and purchasing strategies, product and process-specific characteristics and constraints, supply chain operations and relationships, nature of customer demand, future actions and assumptions, is a subject that needs to be evaluated specifically for the organization.
These and similar factors and priorities necessitate the 'bespoke' or 'tailored' design of production planning process systems within the organization.
The flow of production planning, tasks and responsibilities, analysis methods, and auxiliary tools will vary from one organization to another.
Optimum Planlama offers consulting services to design tailored production planning and detailed scheduling processes and to develop related tools.
We recommend starting with an in-house workshop to instill production planning thinking and align relevant departments and staff.
Our production planning related training and workshop topics include:
For Production Planning consulting, please contact us or submit your quote request.