CPIM Part 2, Module 4 - Supply Flashcards
What are the key objectives of master scheduling? (6)
- Creating a build schedule by end items
- Setting due dates
- Providing the required information regarding resources and materials
- Enabling sales and customer service to promise deliveries to customers
- Providing basis for tradeoffs if orders cannot be met
- Coordinating sales and operations for superior customer service
What is an final assembly schedule?
A schedule of end items to finish the product for specific customers orders in a make-to-order or assemble-to-order environment.
What is a two-level master schedule?
A master-scheduling approach in which a planning bill of material is used to master schedule an end product or family
- This is used in assemble to order environments
What does the master production schedule take into account?
- Capacity limitations
- Production costs
- Resource considerations
- The sales and operations plan
What are three important manufacturing requirements that influence master scheduling approaches in different manufacturing environments?
- Appropriate production process
- Methods used to manage sales volume fluctuations
- Choice of unit production
What is product structure?
The sequence of operations that components follow during their manufacturing into a product
What are the inputs to a master production schedule?
- Forecasts
- Customer orders
- Supply lot size
- Production lead time
- Capacity
What is available-to-promise?
It is the uncommitted portion of a company’s inventory and planned production
What is a planning Bom?
It is an artificial grouping of items or events in bill-of-material format used to facilitate master scheduling and material planning
What are time fences?
Policies or guidelines established to note where various restrictions or changes in operating procedure take place
What are the three techniques for dealing with a overloaded master schedule?
- The five whys
- Managing output: This technique reduces the master production schedule to demonstrated output and then slowly increases it to grow capacity
- Level adjustments: This technique adjusts the level of master schedule to the capacity actually demonstrated and encourages incremental increases in output
What four actions are necessary to manage supply - and supplier- related issues that affect the succes of master scheduling?
- Changes in supplier delivery capabilities
- Availability of parts during shop floor execution
- Slippage in production schedules
- Supplier performance
What are the two main performance metrics for master scheduling?
- Customer service
- Aggregate production plan
What is the bill of resources?
A listing of the required capacity and key resources need to manufacture one unit of a selected item or family
What are the five steps of the rough cut capacity planning process?
- Identify critical resources and their capacity
- Develop resource profiles for each work center for items being master scheduled
- Calculate total load on the work centers
- Compare load to available capacity
- Balance required capacity and planned available capacity
What are the three approaches to rough-cut-capacity planning? And what do they include?
- Capacity planning using overall factors: The master schedule items and quantities are multiplied by the total time to build them, this provides the hours to produce the schedule
- Bill of labor approach:
- Resource profile approach:
Which rough cut capacity approach should be used when: There are shifts in product mix at work centers but there is a relatively constant work pattern?
The bill of labor approach
Which rough cut capacity approach should be used when: There are variations in product mix and the pattern of work varies form period to period?
The resource profile approach
What are the four inputs into MRP?
- Bill of material
- Inventory data
- Master production schedule
- (Planning factors)
What are the three functions of MRP?
- Plan and control inventories, including what must be ordered and in what quantities
- Plan and control order releases to ensure that delivery due dates are met and to maintain validity of due dates
- Provide accurate input regarding planned orders for capacity planning process
What are the three outputs of MRP?
- Schedule of planned production orders
- Action messages
- Schedule of planned purchase order releases
What is a Phantom bill of materials?
It is a bill-of-material coding and structural technique used primarily for transient subassemblies. It is a item that is physically build but rarely held on stock
What are the planning factors in MRP? (4)
- Lot size or order quantity
- Lead time
- Safety stock
- Scrap
What are the three types of information that inventory data includes?
- On-hand
- Allocation
- Scheduled receipts
What is system nervousness?
The impact of constant MRP changes on material planning.
What is an action message?
An output of a system that identifies the need for, and the type of action to be taken to correct, a current or potential problem
What are the three operations in a MRP process?
- Bill-of-material explosion
- Lead-time offsetting
- Calculation of gross and net requirements
What is the cumulative lead time?
The longest planned length of time to accomplish the activity in question
What is lead time offsetting?
A technique used in MRP where a planned order receipt in one time period requires a release of the order in an earlier time period
What are the steps of the CRP process?
- Determine load on resources over a defined time frame
- Using backward scheduling, simulate the scheduling of load at work centers by period, assuming infinite capacity
- Create work center load capacity profiles for each period
- Resolve load-capacity imbalances
- Prepare the operating plan for execution
What are advantages of CRP?
- It can reveal underloads and overloads and allows planners to act before problems become crises
- Rough-cut capacity planning at the master scheduling level also can be verified
- CRP can be used as a simulation tool
- CRP uses more detailed lead-time data than MRP
- CRP helps reduce erratic lead times
What is MRP-II?
It is a closed-loop system that relies on feedback from subsequent stages of the manufacturing process to adjust and improve preceding activities. It is a finite scheduling system.
What are the three scheduling methods?
- MRP based scheduling
- Theory of constraints
- Lean
What is loading and what are the two approaches for loading workcenters?
Loading involves scheduling jobs to work centers and various machines within the work center
- Infinite loading
- Finite loading
What are the two ways that infinite loading can be done?
- Vertical: each work center is scheduled independently
- Horizontal: whole orders are scheduled across multiple work centers at the same time
What are the authorization steps? (4)
- Receive authorization to release order
- Check tooling and material availability
- Check capacity requirements and availability
- Release order to manufacturing