Production Planning and Control

Overview:

Introduction:

Production planning and control refer to the structured management of resources, timelines, and operational workflows that ensure consistent production outputs aligned with demand, inventory, and cost frameworks. These systems coordinate production capacity with material availability and scheduling constraints. This training program introduces organizational models, control frameworks, and planning hierarchies that govern production execution across institutional environments.

Program Objectives:

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Define the structural components and planning levels in production systems.

• Distinguish between sequencing models and resource coordination approaches.

• Organize control mechanisms used to track production progress and identify deviations.

• Structure material and inventory planning models aligned with production flow.

• Interpret production related data to support operational decision-making.

Targeted Audience:

• Production Planners and Coordinators.

• Operations and Plant Supervisors.

• Logistics and Supply Officers.

• Manufacturing Analysts.

• Industrial Strategy and Workflow Teams.

Program Outline:

Unit 1:

Production Planning Foundations:

• Purpose and scope of production planning in industrial systems.

• Types of planning, including strategic, tactical, and operational.

• Planning inputs, including capacity, labor, lead time, and material.

• Functional relationships between production and organizational targets.

• Models for synchronizing planning with corporate objectives.

Unit 2:

Scheduling Structures and Resource Allocation:

• Logic of job sequencing and order prioritization.

• Time allocation methods for multi-stage production.

• Resource planning measures across labor and machine groups.

• Load balancing techniques within production units.

• Constraints affecting scheduling reliability.

Unit 3:

Monitoring Production Performance:

• Structures for real time tracking and variance classification.

• Metrics for measuring plan adherence and efficiency.

• Reporting methods for production status and workflow issues.

• Tools for evaluating output consistency.

• Corrective planning mechanisms based on control outputs.

Unit 4:

Material Coordination and Flow Structuring:

• Integration process of MRP and production scheduling systems.

• How to structure bill of materials (BOM) for planning use.

• Material release timing and flow mapping techniques.

• Importance of linking material availability to production sequence accuracy.

• Oversight of stock alignment with batch requirements.

Unit 5:

Planning System Evaluation and Operational Integration:

• Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of planning structures.

• Link between production metrics and decision logic.

• Coordination principles of planning systems across departments.

• Review of historical planning data for trend interpretation.

• Role of production plans in shaping resource and capacity strategies.