- The document discusses production planning and introduces key concepts like MRP, MRPII, and ERP systems. It explains that production planning prepares production plans using these systems to integrate materials planning, finance, and other functions.
- Key aspects of production planning covered include bill of materials, machine/labor productivity, demand from orders/forecasts, available stock, lead times, safety stocks, and minimum order quantities from suppliers.
- The full course on the Business Sense website provides more details on applying these concepts in detailed production planning.
2. Overview
The Essentials series from Business Sense is an initiative to empower the students(freshers) and
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This document is a part of the Certified Manufacturing Professional course offered by Business Sense
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This course would immensely benefit students and professionals who are joining manufacturing
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3. Contents
Section 1 Introduction to Planning Processes
Section 2 Terminology
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4. Introduction to Production Planning
Production Planning function is responsible for preparing the Plan for
the production
Normally the planning is done through Manufacturing Requirements
Planning (MRP) or Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP2)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the automated & integrated
version of MRP2 Nowadays a lot of ERP packages are in use widely,
across industries
For our easy understanding, the focus would remain on the MRP
systems
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5. Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)
Material requirements planning (MRP) is a production planning and
inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes.
Evolved in1960s
An MRP system is intended to simultaneously meet three objectives:
Ensure materials are available for production and products are available for delivery to
customers
Maintain the lowest possible material and product levels in store
Plan manufacturing activities, delivery schedules and purchasing activities
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6. Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP2)
MRP2 had evolved from MRP in the 80s
It encompasses the same methodology but includes integrated
materials planning, finance and human relations.
It has a simulation capability to answer "what-if" questions
Usage of Software is ideal for MRP2, since it is complex to build it
manually
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7. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Integrated functions aids in better planning and
execution
ERP
Both MRP and MRPII are still widely used, now
independently and as modules of more
comprehensive ERP systems MRP 2
1980s
Automatically calculates the materials
purchasing, production planning and delivery
MRP
schedules
1960s
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8. Contents
Section 1 Introduction to Planning Processes
Section 2 Terminology
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9. Terminology
The following are the various factors that should be considered while
planning for the production using an MRP system
Supply Company Demand
Bill of
Materials
Machine / Labor
Productivity
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10. Demand Side - Customer Order
A confirmed order from the Customer specifying the following:
Order No
Product Required
Quantity
Delivery schedule
Price
Sample approval / Design / Technical drawings depending on the industry
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11. Demand Side - Forecasted Demand
For items which are manufactured based on the sales forecast, the
following items are required for planning:
Product Required
Quantity
Region-wise / other break-up ( depending on the company)
Shipment date
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12. Company Side Bill of Materials
Bill of Materials (BoM) is the list of all items
required to manufacture a product
Bill of Materials (BoM) for X
It includes all raw materials, consumables, 1. Copper rod 5 m
2. Steel rod 10 m
3. Plastic Case type A 2 nos
packing materials with clear consumption 4. Plastic Case type B 1 no
5. Welding rod 2 no
details to manufacture 1 product 6. OK Sticker 1no
7. Barcode label 1no
8. Packing box 1 no
This must be created for each and every 9. Carton box 1/6 no ( 6 items in 1 box)
finished product the company is delivering to
the customers
An example for a BoM is demonstrated here
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13. Company Side Machine / Labor
Productivity
What is the time taken for manufacturing manufacturing lead time
Lead time of all manufacturing processes
Machine run time + idle time + transportation + documentation etc (refer 7
wastes explained in the production module)
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14. Supply Side Stock in Hand
This is the stock for the items present in hand
Finished goods
Raw materials
For e.g. For a customer order of 500 items of X product, if we have 100
nos of X in stores, we can plan only for the remaining 400 nos
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15. Supply Side Lead time, Safety stock &
Minimum Order Quantity
This has been clearly explained in the Purchase and Stores modules
Lead time(LT) is the time an item takes to reach the factory gate from the time of raising a Purchase
Order (PO)
Safety Stock (SS) is the stock quantity/no of days of stock that should be planned to compensate for
any uncertainty in the delivery
Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) There is a minimum order size and batch size for most of the
items. for. E.g. the supplier of welding rods might accept the order only a minimum of 500 rods are
ordered and the multiples will be in 100
Minimum order is 500 nos. After that multiples of 100 ( an order of 575 nos will not be accepted;
either 600 nos or 500 nos should be ordered)
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16. Supply Side Pending Order Status
This refers to the pending Purchase Orders that are yet to be fulfilled by
the suppliers/ vendors
One has to take this also in to account while planning for the materials
Detailed Production Planning and Step-by-Step examples are explained in the Certified
Manufacturing Professional course. To access login to www.businessense.in
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Our website also contains list of ready-to-use templates and report formats containing Charts and
pivot tables.
Templates and report formats are available for Purchase, Stores, Production, Quality, Maintenance and
HR functions
These templates come in excel /word and can be downloaded and used right away
At Business Sense, we help clients through consulting engagements focusing on improving
their Operations through Lean Manufacturing Implementation covering 5S, SMED, Kaizen and
other tools.
We also serve clients on Preparation of Detailed Project Reports, Market Assessments, and
Supply Chain Re-engineering.
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