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Inventory Planning for Supply Chain Professionals
Welcome
What's happening?
Section 1: Fundamentals
Supply chain planning methods
Self-assessment
Section 2: Levels of Planning
Introduction (1:43)
The manufacturing planning and control chart
Production planning and management
Master Production Schedule
Requirements of a Master Scheduler
Master Production Scheduling tools
Material Requirements Planning (1:54)
MRP systems
The detail of material requirements planning
MRP benefits
MRP class example
Capacity Requirements Planning
Performance measurements and cost accounting
Inventory plan
Distribution Requirements Planning
People in an MRP II environment
Self-assessment
Section 3: Capacity Planning
What is capacity?
Rough Cut Capacity Planning
Capacity Requirements Planning
Scheduling and loading with MRP
Load and capacity
Production Activity Control
Self-assessment
Section 4: Basics of Forecasting
Introduction
Different forecasting timing and uses (2:37)
Important forecasting principles
Forecasting in the manufacturing resource planning system
Forecasting techniques
Forecasting error
Summary
Self-assessment
Section 5: Demand Driven MRP
What is DDMRP?
Maintaining flow through production planning
Bi-modal distribution
Strategic inventory positioning
Buffered Lead Time
Variability (1:24)
Buffer profiles and levels
Buffer zone calculations
Dynamic adjustment
Demand Driven planning and execution
Self-assessment
Section 6: Measuring the planning function
Why measure the planning function?
MRP and DRP
DDMRP
Cumulative analysis of buffer positions
Self-assessment
Section 7: Planning tools
Enterprise Resource Planning
Components of Enterprise Resource Planning systems
Planning tools summary
Summary
Self-assessment
Appendix
Bibliography
Recommended reading
Final assessment
Final assessment
MRP systems
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