Why Choose this Training Course?
This Effective Production Planning, Scheduling and Control training course will introduce delegates to the theories and techniques used to plan and control production within wider supply chains. Delegates will understand the impact of decisions upon by supply and customer partners.
Supply chains are becoming more integrated, so it is vital that planners are aware of impacts and constraints regarding planning and operational decisions.
This training course will feature:
- An overview of supply chains
- Balancing supply and demand
- Planning at different levels of the organisation
- Integrating planning processes
- Monitoring the execution of plans
What are the Goals?
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the planning process
- Contribute to sales and operations planning
- Calculate master product schedules
- Explode bills of materials to a material requirements plan
- Evaluate expedite de-expedite recommendations
Who is this Training Course for?
This training course will benefit those who have a primary function in developing, maintaining and executing production plans. The growing importance of supply chain management emphasises the need for effective plans
This COPEX training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Master schedulers
- Production planners
- Production managers
- Vendor schedulers
- Inventory managers
Learning Methods
This COPEX training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes instructor led presentations, delegate exercises, group discussions.
- Supply chain management overview
- Manufacturing role in supply chains
- Manufacturing environments
- Why plan
- Evolution of planning
- Strategic planning
- Understanding demand
- Forecasting
- Planning horizons
- Master planning
- Available to promise
- Material requirements planning
- Bills of materials
- Lead time offsets
- Exploding the bill of materials
- Capacity planning
- Aggregate inventory management
- Valuing inventory
- Lot sizes
- Reorder points
- Periodic review
- Production activity control
- Dispatch rules
- Monitoring the plan
- Expediting
- Theory of constraints
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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