Indr 372 Production Planning and Control: Course Topics

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Indr 372
Production Planning and
Control
Chapter 1
Introduction
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Course topics
Introduction
Forecasting Forecasting
Aggregate Production Planning
Inventory Management
Material Requirements Planning
JIT Production
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Supply Chain Management
Quality Control and Management
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Some tools to remember
Forecasting statistics, regression
Inventory management probabilistic models Inventory management probabilistic models
Aggregate production planning linear
optimization
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Introduction
Planning and organizing production in order to
minimize the operational costs while satisfying
customer service objectives
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Introduction
Customer service
objectives objectives
Delivery times
Service (i.e. fill rate)
levels
Major cost components
Raw material purchasing
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costs
Production costs
Inventory costs
Why do inventory management and
production planning matter?
Operating Profit = Revenue Operating Expenses
Better inventory management
-> more sales
-> increased revenue
Improved production planning
-> reduced operating expenses
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> reduced operating expenses
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A hierarchy of planning problems
Horizon Decisions Examples of decisions
D i
l t
- Facility location
- Production line design
Design
long term
Production line design
- Distribution network design
- Warehouse design
Aggregate Production
Planning
medium term
- Allocation of production between factories
- Planning anticipation inventories
- Planning overtimes, extra shifts
- Subcontracting decisions
- Production order release
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Material Flow Control
short term
- Production order release
- Replenishment orders
- Planning deliveries
Scheduling Very short term
- Scheduling a job-shop
- Allocation of jobs to machines
- Routing of deliveries
A framework for production
planning
Different environments
Job shops highly customized products Job shops highly customized products
Flow shops less customization
Assembly lines little customization + automation
Process typically continuous flow (chemicals,
drugs, petroleum)
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The Product Life-Cycle Curve
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Process life cycle
Job shop, low-volume varied
Early
Job shop, low volume varied
mix
stage
Automation starts, volume
increases, unit production costs
decline with learning
Middle
stage
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Automated, continuous flow
Mature
stage
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The Process Life Cycle
and the Experience Curve
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The product-process matrix
Hayes and Wheelright, 1979
Few of each;
custom
Low volume,
many
products
High volume,
several
major
Very high
volume,
commodity
Product
mix
Process
pattern products major
products
commodity
Job shop Aerospace
Batch flow Machine
tools
Worker paced
line flow
Electrical and
electronics
Machine Automobile
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Machine
paced line
flow
Automobile
Continuous,
automated
rigid flow
Paper, oil,
steel

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