Unit 1 Production planning

7 lecture hours

• Benefits and basic functions for production planning
• project planning various production planning
• types of production and their basic characteristics
• identification of different production activities
• capacity level of each activity
• determination of standard hours available
• Master Production schedule: Concept
• Chase sales

Unit 2 Forecasting, Aggregate planning, Capacity planning

8 lecture hours

• Forecasting: Need for forecasting
• role of forecasting in PPC, forecasting methods of qualitative type like judgment techniques
• Forecasting methods of quantitative types like time series analysis
• least square method
• moving average method
• exponential smoothing method
• Forecasting Errors and Forecasting Bias
• Monitoring forecast
• need for planning and market research Aggregate planning: Concept of aggregate planning
• decision rules
• strategies and methods
• Capacity Planning: Measurement of capacity
• Measures of capacity
• Factors influencing effective capacity
• short range
• medium range and long range capacity planning
• Rough cut capacity planning

Unit 3 Process Planning and Line Balancing

• Process planning: Prerequisite information requirement
• steps in process planning
• process planning in different situations
• documents in process planning
• machine / process 08 Subject Code: 3161508