Product Production Plan

Production Planning System
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Planning System Questions
• What are we going to make?

• What does it take to make it?
• What do we already have?
• What do we need to get?
Key is to Match
• Priority
▪ What is needed, when, and how much
• Capacity
▪ Capability to produce what is needed and when
Priority Capacity
(Demand (Resources
) )
Major Levels of Planning and
Control
• In order of time span (long to short) and detail
(general to detailed)
▪ Strategic plans
▪ Strategic business plans
▪ Sales and Operations Plans (Production Plans
and Marketing Plans)
▪ Master Production Schedules
▪ Material Requirements Plans
▪ Purchasing and Production Activity Control
At Each Level, Need to Decide
• What are the priorities

▪ What to produce?
▪ How much?
▪ When?
• What is the available capacity?
• How can the differences between priorities and
capacities best be resolved?
The Strategic Plan
• Broad direction of the firm

▪ Product lines
▪ Markets
▪ Growth
• Senior management from all functions
responsible for input
• Some companies use Hoshin planning
▪ Vision
▪ Goals
Sustainability
• The capability to continue (sustain) operations

into the future
▪ Pollution and waste control
▪ Social responsibility
▪ Remanufacturing and the reverse supply chain
▪ Recycling
Risk Management
• Negative risks
▪ Evaluate sources and possible results of
failures
▪ Develop plans to minimize impacts
• Positive risks (opportunities)
▪ Evaluate sources
▪ Develop plans to exploit
The Strategic Business Plan
• Developed from the overall strategic plan

• Focuses on the financial implications
▪ Pro forma income statements
▪ Pro forma balance sheets
Planning Hierarchy
Strategic
Business Plan
Master
Production Plan
Plan
Planning
Master Production
Schedule
Material
Requirements
Plan
Production Activity Implementation

Control and
Purchasing
Production Plan
• Quantities of each product group to be
produced each period
• Projected/desired inventory levels
• Resources needed
▪ Equipment
▪ Labor
▪ Material
• Availability of needed resources
• Sometimes called the aggregate production
plan
Product Groups (Families)
• Established on the basis of similar resources and

processes used
• Makes long-term forecasting easier
• Effective for planning the major focus of the
production plan - resources
Master Production Schedule
• Shows, for each period, the quantity of each end

item to be made.
• Level of detail is higher than the Production Plan
▪ End items vs. groups of items
▪ Time periods usually shorter (e.g., weeks
versus months)
More Detailed Planning and
Control
• Material Requirements Plan
▪ End item requirements broken down into specific
components – what to make or buy, and when
• Production Activity Control
▪ Execution plan, detailing specific orders to
produce items from the Material Requirements
Plan
• Purchasing
▪ Similar to Production Activity Control
▪ Includes items to be purchased rather than
produced
Capacity Management
• At each level of the planning and control system,

reconciliation with resources must be made
▪ Must obtain the right resources or change the
plan
• Inadequate resources = missed production
schedules
• Resources significantly exceed planned
production = idle resources and extra cost
Sales and Operations Plan
Strategic Annually
Business Plan
SALES AND OPERATIONS PLAN

Monthly
Marketing Production
Plan Plan
Detailed Master Weekly

Sales Plan Production or
Schedule Daily
Sales and Operations Planning
• Can be used to update the strategic plan

• Provides a tool to manage change
• Enforces functional plans to be realistic and
coordinated
• Represents a plan to achieve company
objectives
• Provides management visibility of production,
inventory, and backlogs
Developing the Production Plan
• Some key questions that must be answered to

develop an effective planning strategy
▪ How flexible are the resources, both in
quantity and timing?
▪ Are “outside” resources available
(subcontracting)?
▪ Can we utilize inventory to meet demand?
Basic Production Plan Strategies
• Chase – vary production rates to meet changes
in demand
▪ Often used when inventory cannot be used
or when resources are flexible and
inexpensive to change
• Level – establish average demand level and set
production rate to that level
▪ Often used when resources are difficult or
very expensive to change
• Hybrid – use a combination of some chase and
some level
Demand Pattern
No. of
Units
Demand
Time
Chase Production
Chase Production
No. of
Chase
Units
Production
Demand
Time
Level Production
Level Production
No. of
Units
Level
Production
Demand
Time
Level Production Plan
Production Rate = Sales - Open Inv + End Inv
# of Production Periods
Level Production Plan
Practice Problem
• Charlie’s Chairs has a forecast (in ‘000) of 50, 60,
70, 30 chairs for the next four quarters. His
opening inventory is 40 chairs but he would like
to reduce this to 30 by the end of the year.
• How many chairs should he make each quarter
and what will be his ending inventory?
Charlie’s Chairs - Solution
Sales = 210 chairs

Opening inventory = 40
Desired closing inventory = 30
Production rate = 210 – 40 + 30
4
= 50 chairs/ quarter
Level Production
Level Production
No. of
Units USE
Inventory
Level
Production
CREATE Inventory
Demand
Time
Hybrid Strategy
Hybrid Strategy
No. of
Units
Hybrid
Demand
Time
Numerical Example
Suppose the forecasted demand for a product family looks

like the table below. Assume the product family is a
Make-to-Stock family with a starting inventory of 100.
Period 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
Forecast (Demand) 150 160 180 175 155 140 960

Production Plan Using a Level
Strategy
Forecast (Demand) 150 160 180 175 155 140 960
Planned Production 160 160 160 160 160 160 960
Planned Inventory 110 110 90 75 80 100

Production Plan using a Chase
Strategy
Forecast (Demand) 150 160 180 175 155 140 960

Production Plan using a Hybrid
Strategy
Forecast (Demand) 150 160 180 175 155 140 960
Practice Problem
• Shawn’s Chimney Cleaning has new orders for

the next week of 4, 6, 2, 7 & 5 houses. He has 4
orders left over from last week and he would like
to start next week with only 3 customers waiting
for work.
• How many should he clean each day? Use a level
plan.
• Why use a level plan?
Make-to-Order Production Plans
• Products made to customer specifications

• The customer is willing to wait for completion
• Generally products more expensive to make
and/or store
• Often several options offered
• Company often uses a backlog of unfilled
customer orders rather than inventory

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Production Planning System

Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Inc. 3-1

• What are we going to make?

• What are the priorities

• Broad direction of the firm

• The capability to continue (sustain) operations

• Developed from the overall strategic plan

Production Activity Implementation

• Established on the basis of similar resources and

• Shows, for each period, the quantity of each end

• At each level of the planning and control system,

SALES AND OPERATIONS PLAN

Detailed Master Weekly

• Can be used to update the strategic plan

• Some key questions that must be answered to

Production Rate = Sales - Open Inv + End Inv

Sales = 210 chairs

Suppose the forecasted demand for a product family looks

Forecast (Demand) 150 160 180 175 155 140 960

Forecast (Demand) 150 160 180 175 155 140 960

Planned Production 160 160 160 160 160 160 960

Planned Inventory 110 110 90 75 80 100

Forecast (Demand) 150 160 180 175 155 140 960

Planned Production 150 160 180 175 155 140 960

Planned Inventory 100 100 100 100 100 100

Forecast (Demand) 150 160 180 175 155 140 960

Planned Production 140 140 140 175 175 175 945

• Shawn’s Chimney Cleaning has new orders for

• Products made to customer specifications

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