Production planning is where you decide what resources you need to produce your product. For example: you are making a bicycle. Let's say that you need to make 500 bicycles next month. Naturally, you need a building to store the materials and house the workers, but production planning usually assumes that you've already got that. Your production plan will include the 1000 tires and wheels that you'll need throughout the week (they can't all arrive on Friday, you need at least 200 of them by Monday) and the 500 frames, seats, etc. and the boxes to put them in. If it takes the supplier 14 days to deliver the wheels and tires, then you need to order them two weeks before you start production. Obviously there's a lot more little details than that, but that's the general idea.
Production planning and control is used in the manufacturing industry. As the name suggests, it is used to plan and control the process of production.
Daniel Sipper has written: 'Production' -- subject(s): Inventory control, Production planning, Production control 'Production: Planning, Control and Integration'
Production planning and control is used in the manufacturing industry. As the name suggests, it is used to plan and control the process of production.
Production, planning and control is a very important in the manufacturing firms. They help in the analysis and help determine the quality of a given type of product.
Dennis W. McLeavey has written: 'Production planning and inventory control' -- subject(s): Inventory control, Production planning
Advantages of production planning and control to a small scale industry are that, the industry is able to manage its finances, the industry controls the order and stock, there is no over or underproduction.
Thomas T. Hirata has written: 'Customer satisfaction planning' -- subject(s): Manufacturing industries, Quality control, Customer services, Production planning, Production control, Customer relations
Its purpose is to minimise production time and costs, efficiently organise the use of resources and maximise efficiency in the workplace.
George W. Plossl has written: 'Getting the most from forecasts' 'The master production schedule' 'The role of top management in the control of inventory' -- subject(s): Industrial management, Inventory control 'The best investment-control, not machinery' 'Effective corporate strategy in manufacturing' -- subject(s): Production management 'Material requirements planning and inventory record accuracy' 'Material requirements planning by computer' -- subject(s): Data processing, Inventory control, Material requirements planning, Production control
Edward A. 1937- Silver has written: 'Decision systems for inventory management and production planning' -- subject(s): Decision-making, Inventory control, Production planning
Sunuk Kim has written: 'Schedule-based material requirements planning' -- subject(s): Data processing, Production scheduling, Inventory control, Production control
role players in production planning