MMZG533

Manufacturing Planning & Control

BITS Pilani
Pilani Campus Venkatesh PS/ Pavan Potdar
 BITS Pilani
Pilani Campus

MM ZG533,
Manufacturing Planning & Control – Setting the stage
Lecture No. 0
 Pavan Kumar Potdar
Assistant Professor, BITS PILANI

● B. Tech Mechanical Engineering, GPREC Kurnool, AP

● M.Tech CAD/CAM, JNTU, Hyderabad
● Ph.D - Agile Manufacturing, BITS Pilani
● 7+ years of Industry experience - Manufacturing domain
● 20 years in Academics in various capacities - HOD
Mechanical Dept, Controller of Examinations for college, PS /
WILP faculty.

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 Venkatesh PS
Supply Chain & Planning Director, Coats Group Plc
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkatesh-ps-1507203/

Chennai Pilani

Lucknow Pune

Kozhikode Mumbai

Manufacturing
Kochi Kolhapur

R&D Coimbator
Bangalore
e

Sales/ Vietnam
Commercial

Supply Chain/
Logistics

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Participant profile

• Total work experience 12000+ - over

1000 years!!
• Mean work experience 136 months
(11 years)
• Median work experience 138 months
(11 years)
• Min work experience 12 months (1
year)
• Max work experience 403 months (33
years)

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Participant profile

Any guesses on which locations have the largest number

of participants?

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Participants

• Likely over 100

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What do you hope to take
away from this course?
Poll

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Course Objectives

• Understanding the role of Manufacturing operations in

the context of end-to-end business planning
• Understanding the role of other functions in the area of
operations planning and execution
• Manufacturing management in the current landscape
• Being ready to take data-driven decisions for optimal use
of resources to meet customer demand
• Changing landscape with planning automation and
control towers in a large ERP-driven environment

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Learn what WE expect from you,
and what You can expect from us
• What YOU need to bring to the table
• Attention and participation
• Focus on learning and application
• Read a lot, Compare/ Contrast with real work environment, Practise
• Details and Numbers
• ON TIME, IN FULL
• Whatever you do, DO IT RIGHT

• What YOU can expect from us

• Commitment to your learning
• Practical examples and applications
• Availability to answer questions
• Engaging sessions linked to the real world
• Contemporary resources

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Course Schedule

• 16 sessions of 120 mins each*

• Every Sunday, 08:20 AM to 10:20 AM*
• Handout on elearn portal
*subject to change with prior notice

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Learning Components

• Pre-read (course textbooks, reference materials)

• Practical exercises/ games/ spreadsheet simulations
• Case studies
• Classroom lectures
• Assignments
• White papers from top consultants

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Texts/ Associated materials
Text Books
T1 Jay Heizer., Barry Render., Chuck Munson., Principles of Operations Management, Tenth edition., Pearson Global
Edition, 2017.
T2 Eliyahu M Goldratt., The Goal., Productivity & Quality Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2013.
T3 Jan C Fransoo., Toni Wafler., John Wilson., Behavioral Operations in Planning and Scheduling, Springer, 2014.

Reference books
R1 Several white papers and articles by session, shared before or after the session

Other resources
Lecture slides
https://www.tocico.org/
https://www.goldratt.com/
https://www.toc-goldratt.com/en
https://www.oliverwight-americas.com/whitepapers-articles/
https://www.mckinsey.com/quarterly/overview
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/

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Communication/ Interaction
Email/ Mobile:
ps_venkatesh@wilp.bits-pilani.ac.in +91 9900822669
pavan.potdar@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in +919869771853

Elearn portal for questions/ TEAMS

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How to succeed in this
course
• Brush up on basic math and statistics
• Be regular, be attentive
• Where there is opportunity, learn from others
• Pre-read text chapter(s) before the lecture
• Don’t be shy/ hesitant; Ask questions
• Bring in any practical examples for discussion
• Pay attention to numbers, financial impact; focus on decisions at work
• Life has no syllabus, so focus on learning – marks and grades will follow
• Think Finance in all your decisions – end-to-end impacts on sales, cash, margins, costs.

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Thank you

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Session 1
Pre-Read:
The Goal (Chapters 1 to 5)
T1 – Chapters 1 and 2

Pre-work – Use a commercial passenger airline company to illustrate a

service organization’s operations system. The system consists of
the airplanes, the airport facilities, maintenance facilities and
involved multiple locations spread geographically. Explain the key
activities under various heads that would come under the scope of
operations management.

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