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    Production planning involves procuring sufficient raw materials, staff, and other items needed to create finished products according to a specified schedule. It aims to maximize profitability while satisfying customers. Production planning deals with determining what, when, and how much to produce over different time horizons from long-term facility planning to daily operations. Production control techniques regulate inventory, production schedules, and resource utilization to achieve production planning targets and ensure a smooth, cost-effective production process.

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    Production planning involves procuring sufficient raw materials, staff, and other items needed to create finished products according to a specified schedule. It aims to maximize profitability while satisfying customers. Production planning deals with determining what, when, and how much to produce over different time horizons from long-term facility planning to daily operations. Production control techniques regulate inventory, production schedules, and resource utilization to achieve production planning targets and ensure a smooth, cost-effective production process.

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    Production planning involves procuring sufficient raw materials, staff, and other items needed to create finished products according to a specified schedule. It aims to maximize profitability while satisfying customers. Production planning deals with determining what, when, and how much to produce over different time horizons from long-term facility planning to daily operations. Production control techniques regulate inventory, production schedules, and resource utilization to achieve production planning targets and ensure a smooth, cost-effective production process.

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    The administrative process that takes place within a manufacturing business and which

    involves making sure that sufficient raw materials, staff and other necessary items are
    procured and ready to create finished products according to the schedule specified. A typical
    large manufacturing business engaging in production planning will aim to maximize
    profitability while maintaining a satisfied consumer base.

    Production Planning
    Production planning is one part of production planning and control dealing with basic concepts of what to
    produce, when to produce, how much to produce, etc. It involves taking a long-term view at overall
    production planning. Therefore, objectives of production planning are as follows:

     To ensure right quantity and quality of raw material, equipment, etc. are available during times of
    production.
     To ensure capacity utilization is in tune with forecast demand at all the time.

    A well thought production planning ensures that overall production process is streamlined providing
    following benefits:

     Organization can deliver a product in a timely and regular manner.


     Supplier are informed will in advance for the requirement of raw materials.
     It reduces investment in inventory.
     It reduces overall production cost by driving in efficiency.

    Production planning takes care of two basic strategies’ product planning and process planning.
    Production planning is done at three different time dependent levels i.e. long-range planning dealing with
    facility planning, capital investment, location planning, etc.; medium-range planning deals with demand
    forecast and capacity planning and lastly short term planning dealing with day to day operations.

    Production Control
    Production control looks to utilize different type of control techniques to achieve optimum performance out
    of the production system as to achieve overall production planning targets. Therefore, objectives of
    production control are as follows:

     Regulate inventory management


     Organize the production schedules
     Optimum utilization of resources and production process

    The advantages of robust production control are as follows:

     Ensure a smooth flow of all production processes


     Ensure production cost savings thereby improving the bottom line
     Control wastage of resources
     It maintains standard of quality through the production life cycle.

    Production control cannot be same across all the organization. Production control is dependent upon the
    following factors:

     Nature of production( job oriented, service oriented, etc.)


     Nature of operation
     Size of operation

    Production planning and control are essential for customer delight and overall success of an organization.

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