Chapter 2 production planning system Flashcards

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Chapter 2 production planning systems: a good planning system must answer four questions?

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  1. What’s the product or service?
  2. What does it take to provide the product or service?
  3. What do we have?
  4. What do we need?

The first step in the manufacturing planning and control system

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Chapter 2 production planning systems: Priority…

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Priority relates to what products are needed how many are needed and when they are needed

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Chapter 2 production planning systems: capacity…

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capacity is the capability of manufacturing to produce goods and services;Capacity is the quantity of work that labor and equipment can perform any given.

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Chapter 2 production planning systems: capacity relies on four areas…

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machinery, labor, financial resources, and the availability of material from its suppliers

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  1. Chapter 2 production planning systems: Manufacturing planning and control systems 5 levels…
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MPC

  1. Strategic business plan (Broad focus)
  2. Production plan (Detailed)
  3. Master production schedule (More detailed)
  4. Material requirements plan (Extremely detailed)
  5. Purchasing and production activity control (Very detailed)
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  1. Chapter 2 production planning systems: Manufacturing planning and control systems; the strategic business plan?
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A statement of major goals and objectives the company expects to achieve over the next 2 to 10 years; broad statement of product lines markets and future plans

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  1. Chapter 2 production planning systems: Manufacturing planning and control systems The strategic business plan provides direction and coordination to four departments
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  1. Marketing
  2. Production
  3. Financial
  4. Engineering
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  1. Chapter 2 production planning systems: Manufacturing planning and control systems The production plan
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Production planners must devise a plan to satisfy market demand within the resources available to the company

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  1. Chapter 2 production planning systems: Manufacturing planning and control systems the master production schedule
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The master production schedule is the plan for the production of individual products

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  1. Chapter 2 production planning systems: Manufacturing planning and control systems The material requirements plan
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The material requirements plan MRP is a plan for the production and purchase of the components used in making the items in the master production schedule

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  1. Chapter 2 production planning systems: Manufacturing planning and control systems Purchasing and production activity control
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PAC purchasing and production activity control is the implementation and control phase of the production planning and control system; PAC is responsible for planning and control of the flow of work through the factory

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  1. Chapter 2 production planning systems: Manufacturing planning and control systems; Capacity management
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Capacity management is calculating the capacity needed to manufacture per the requirements of the priority plan and to find methods to make the capacity available

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20 Production planning systems: sales and operations planning

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The strategic business plan integrates the plans of all departments; Sales and operations planning is a process for continually revising the strategic business plan and coordinating plans of various departments

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20 Production planning systems: sales and operations planning

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SOP is a cross functional business plan that involves sales and marketing, product development, operations, and senior management

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20 Production planning systems: sales and operations planning is updated?

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Monthly

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  1. Production planning systems: Manufacturing resource planning
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Manufacturing planning and control systems are a master game plan for all departments in the company also called MRP II

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  1. Production planning systems: Manufacturing resource planning provides coordination between what to departments?
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Manufacturing and production

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  1. Production planning systems: Enterprise resource planning
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ERP is similar to MRP II except it does not dwell on manufacturing

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  1. Production planning systems: Enterprise resource planning; ERP encompasses the total company whereas MRP II encompasses…
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Just manufacturing

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; The production plan does want?
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The production plan sets the general levels of production and inventory over the planning horizon

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; establishing product groups
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Product groups are based on similarity of manufacturing processes

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; 4 basic strategies used in developing a production plan to meet the goals and objectives of the business
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  1. Chase strategy
  2. Production leveling
  3. Subcontracting
  4. Hybrid strategy
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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; 4 basic strategies: Chase strategy (demand matching)
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Chase strategy means producing amounts demanded at any time; the company must have enough capacity to be able to meet peak demand Advantage low levels of inventory

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; 4 basic strategies: production leveling
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Production leveling is continually producing an amount equal to the average demand; advantage smooth levels of operation this advantage inventory builds up in low demand periods

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; 4 basic strategies: Subcontracting
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Subcontracting means to always produce at a level of minimum demand and meeting any additional demand through subcontracting advantage low production and inventory costs disadvantage increase cost of purchasing

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; 4 basic strategies: highbrid strategy
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Blending chase, production leveling, and subcontracting to meet demand requirements

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; developing a make to stock production plan
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Products are made and put into inventory before an order is received from a customer

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; Developing a make to order production plan
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Manufactures wait until an order is received from a customer before starting to make the goods; example Tailored clothing

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; Make to order production plan; Backlog
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In a make to order environment the company does not build an inventory of finished goods resulting in a backlog of unfilled customer orders

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  1. Production planning systems: Making the production plan; resource planning Once the production plan is established that must be compared to…
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The resources Of the company; a resource bill shows the quantity of critical resources needed to make one average unit of the product group