Advanced Integrated Planning
Introduction
Production Planning are the various methods used to carry out production "Production (economics)") in a company or industry. Analyzing the required resources of materials and production capacity, to serve the needs of customers.
There are different production methods, such as single item production, batch production, mass production, continuous production, etc. each has its own way of production planning.
Production planning can be combined with production control and is a part of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Production planning is used in companies in different industries, including agriculture, manufacturing, entertainment industry, etc. . . . .
Overview
Production planning establishes what can be manufactured by a company with the resources it has and its needs. A production plan is made periodically for a specific period of time, called the planning horizon. It may include the following activities:
• - Determination of the required product mix and factory workload to satisfy customer needs.[1].
• - Adjust the required level of production to existing resources.[2].
• - Schedule&action=edit&redlink=1 "Scheduling (production processes) (not yet written)") and choose the work to start at the manufacturing facilities " [3].
• - Prepare and deliver production orders to production facilities.[4].
To develop production plans, the production planner or production planning department must work closely with the marketing department and the sales department. These departments may provide sales forecasts or a list of customer orders."[5] Scheduling is typically done over a variety of product types that may require different resources and serve different customers. Therefore, selection must optimize customer-independent performance measures, such as cycle time, and customer-dependent performance measures, such as on-time delivery."[3].
A critical factor in production planning is "the accurate estimation of the productive capacity of available resources, however, this is one of the most difficult tasks to perform well."[6] Production planning must always take into account "material availability, resource availability and knowledge of future demand."[4].