Capacity Planning, Scheduling & Inventory Management
*Please call us at 04-6467110 or Email us for latest schedule.
Shutdowns are costly. More frustrating are unexpected shutdowns caused by planning mistakes.
Planning is the heart of manufacturing. It determines your success in satisfying your customers, which in turns determines your company performance. Inventory, on the other hand is like your cash. Manage it well, you will excel. In this specially designed activity-based workshop, you will learn the methodologies and effectiveness of planning & inventory management system.
After attending this workshop, you will be able to:
- achieve faster responses & on time delivery to customers,
- optimized resources utilization for cost reduction, and
- reduce your inventory and improve on your company?s cash flow.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is beneficial to managers and executives from Planning, Materials & Inventory Control, Production, Purchasing, Warehouse, Logistics, Customer Service and Finance.
Workshop Methodology
Participants will be stimulated to participate with active interaction in team activities like group discussions & presentations, business games & modeling and Harvard business case studies.
What You Will Learn
1. Overview of Supply Chain planning process and materials organization
2. Customers? orders management
- Make to order vs. Make to stock
- Sales order
3. Scheduling & Production planning
- Work Order Management
- Sales order and work order balancing
- Bills of Materials & ECN Management
- Line Efficiency
- Team Activities: Fulfilling the sales order?
4. Capacity Planning
- Business planning
- Line balancing & bottleneck
- Learning curve & yield
- Traditional Departmentalized Model (TDM)
- Work Cell Model (WCM)
- The throughput approach
- Lead time
Team Activities: 1) Own your dream car? 2) Why schedule factor with yield still fails?
5. Materials planning
- Materials Requirement Planning (MRP I) & Materials Resources Planning (MRP II)
- Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)
6. Inventory management
- JIT & Kanban
- Pull vs. Push system
- Carrying vs. Acquisition costs
- Safety Stock Approach
- Inventory Accuracy & Cycle Counting
- IQC and aging control
- Business Game: Aeroplane Building Corporation.
7. e-Business solutions
- Web-based supply chain
- Benefits of e-business solutions
Workshop Duration: 2 days (9am – 5pm)
Hurry! Call us at 04-646 7110 or Email:
info@synerflexconsulting.com to reserve your seat now or to find out more
details.
