The Production Planning and Control Division has the following key responsibilities:
1. Effectively utilize resources to ensure steady production flow and minimize waste while meeting sales requirements through optimal inventory levels.
2. Coordinate activities across departments to facilitate quality improvement, capture markets, and provide a better work environment to reduce costs and satisfy consumers.
3. Estimate resource needs based on sales forecasts and help minimize raw material waste to improve labor productivity, maximize equipment use, and ensure regular product supply.
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1. Mission and Responsibilities of PPC division 1
Production Planning and Control Division
Productionplanning and Control Division
 Vision of production planning and control:
Effective utilization of resources.
Steady flow of production.
Estimate the resources.
Ensures optimum inventory.
Co-ordinates activities of departments.
Minimize wastage of raw materials.
Improves the labor productivity.
Helps to capture the market.
Provides a better work environment.
Facilitates quality improvement.
Results in consumer satisfaction.
Reduces the production costs.
1. Effective utilization of resources
Production planning results in effective utilization of resources, plant capacity
and equipments. This results in low-cost and high returns for the organization.
2. Steadyflow of production
Production planning ensures a regular and steady flow of production. Here, all
the machines are put to maximum use. This results in a regular production,
which helps to give a routine supply to customers.
3. Estimate the resources
Production planning helps to estimate the resources like men, materials, etc. The
estimate is made based on sales forecast. So production is planned to meet sales
requirements.
4. Ensures optimum inventory
Production planning ensures optimum inventory. It prevents over-stocking and
under-stocking. Necessary stocks are maintained. Stock of raw material is
maintained at a proper level in order to meet the production demands. Stock of
finished goods is also maintained to meet regular demands from customers.
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Production Planning and Control Division
5. Co-ordinates activities of departments
Production planning helps to co-ordinate the activities of different departments.
For example the planning / Quality unit department co-ordinates with
production department, this results in profit to the organization.
6. Minimize wastageofraw materials
Production planning minimizes wastage of raw materials. It ensures proper
inventory of raw materials and materials handling. This helps to minimize
wastages of raw material in production areas. It also ensures production of
quality goods. This result in a minimum rejects. So proper production planning
and control results in minimum wastage.
7. Improves the labor productivity
Production planning improves the labor productivity. Here, there is maximum
utilization of manpower. Training is provided to the workers. The profits are
shared with the workers in form of increased wages and other incentives.
Workers are motivated to perform their best. This results in improved labor
efficiency.
8. Helps to capture the market
Production planning helps to give delivery of goods to customers in time. This
is because of regular flow of quality production through implementation of
quality standards and SOP's in all relevant production areas. So the company
can face competition effectively, and it can capture the market.
9. Provides a better work environment
Production planning provides a better work environment to the workers.
Workers get improved working conditions, proper working hours, leave and
holidays, increased wages and other incentives. This is because the company is
working very efficiently.
10. Facilitates quality improvement
Production planning facilitates quality improvement because the production is
checked regularly. Quality consciousness is developed among the employees
through training, suggestion schemes, quality circles, etc.
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Production Planning and Control Division
11. Results in consumer satisfaction
Production planning helps to give a regular supply of goods and services to the
consumers at far prices. It results in consumer satisfaction.
12. Reduces the production costs
Production planning makes optimum utilization of resources, and it minimizes
wastage. It also maintains optimum size of inventories. All this reduces the
production costs.