Chapter 3 master scheduling Flashcards
- After production planning the next step in the manufacturing planning and control process is to prepare…
Master production schedule MPS; What manufacturing will actually build
- Master scheduling: master production schedule is the basis for communications between…
sales and manufacturing
- Master scheduling:MPS is the priority plan for
Manufacturing
- Master scheduling: MPS drives the
Material requirements plan; basis for calculating capacity and resources necessary
- Master scheduling: Developing a master production schedule MPS; the objectives of the MPS?
- To maintain the desired level of customer service by maintaining inventory levels to meet customer requirements
- To make the best use of material, labor, and equipment
3 to maintain inventory investment at the required levels
- Master scheduling: Developing a master production schedule MPS; Three steps in preparing the MPS
- Develop preliminary MPS
- Check the Preliminary MPS against the available capacity
- Resolve differences between the preliminary MPS and the capacity available
- Master scheduling: Developing a master production schedule MPS; Once the preliminary master production schedules are made they must be checked against available capacity. This process is called?
Rough-cut capacity planning
- Master scheduling: Developing a master production schedule MPS; rough-cut capacity planning checks for…
availability of critical resources such as operations, labor, and materials
- Master scheduling: Developing a master production schedule MPS; rough-cut capacity planning; is the available capacity…
Greater than the required capacity; adjustments may have to be made in overtime, labor, or equipment to meet customer needs
- Master scheduling: Developing a master production schedule MPS; The MPS must be judged by three criteria…
- Resource use
- Customer service
- Cost
- Master scheduling: Developing a master production schedule MPS; Master schedule decisions; the MPS should represent as clearly as possible what…
manufacturing will make;
- Master scheduling: Developing a master production schedule MPS; Planning horizon Is the…
Time spent for which plans are made; a period equal to the time required to accomplish the plan
- Master scheduling: Production planning, master scheduling, and sales; the production plan reconciles the…
Total forecast demand with available resources;
- master scheduling: Production planning, master scheduling, and sales;MPS is a plan for ….
What production can do
- master scheduling: Production planning, master scheduling, and sales Available to promise
ATP is that portion of a firm’s inventory that is planned production that is not already committed and is available to the customer