PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL

Description. Good planning and control is an essential part of the effective daily operations of various productive activities of any manufacturing or service industry. One of the major problems that small and medium enterprises experience is low productivity due to under-utilization of existing resources due to poor planning and control, machine shortages, and inefficient labor allocation. All these can be mitigated through effective production planning and control (PPC) which is proven to contribute immensely to time, quality and cost parameters of entrepreneurial success.

Learn proven techniques for planning, scheduling and controlling production activities and develop the strategy and systems that let capacity and resources be scheduled most effectively during this two-day seminar-workshop.

Course Objectives. At the end of the course, the participants shall be able to:
     • Plan and control effectively their respective manufacturing activities;
     • Identify the different PPC functions;
     • Identify the relation of PPC to other organizational functions; and
     • Organize cost estimation of various production processes as basis for
        production decision making.


Instruction Methods. The seminar-workshop will make use of substantial lecture -discussions, workshops, and presentations.

Who Should Attend. This program is designed for production, plan, logistics, materials and operations officers, as well as plant superintendents, inventory planners, master planners, master schedulers, production supervisors.

Course Outline:
  Role of PPC in an industrial firm

  Principles and Importance of PPC

  PPC Functions
     • Production Planning
           - Forecasting Techniques
           - Routing Procedures
           - Types of Scheduling
           - Methods of Estimating

     • Production Control
           - Dispatching Activities
           - Expediting
           - Types of Follow-up

  Simple Application of PPC in a manufacturing firm

Duration: 16hours