1. LBI - Microsoft
LBI - Microsoft
PRODUCTION PLANNING SYSTEM
· Manufacturing Planning and Control System
· Sales and Operations Planning
· Manufacturing Resource Planning
· Enterprise Resource Planning
· Making the Production Plan
MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS PLANNING AND CAPACITY MANAGEMENT
· Bills of Material and using the Material Requirements Plan
· Material Requirements Planning Process
· Introduction and Definition of Capacity
· Capacity Planning, Capacity Available and Capacity Required
PRODUCTION ACTIVITY CONTROL
· Introduction, Data Requirements
· Order Preparation, Scheduling
· Load Leveling, Scheduling Bottlenecks
· Theory of Constraints and Drum-Buffer-Rope
· Implementation, Control and Production Reporting
PURCHASING / FORECASTING
· Establishing Specifications
· Selecting Suppliers / Price Determination
· Impact of Material Requirements Planning on Purchasing
· Demand Management and Forecasting
· Characteristic and Principles of Forecasting/Demand
· Forecasting Techniques / Tracking the Forecast
INVENTORY FUNDAMENTALS AND ORDER QUANTITIES
· Aggregate and Item Inventory Management
· Inventory and the Flow of Material

2. LBI - Microsoft
LBI - Microsoft
· Supply and Demand Patterns
· Functions and Objectives of Inventories
· Inventory Costs / Financial Statement and Inventory
· ABC Inventory Control
· Economic-Order Quantity
· Variations of the EOQ Model
· Quantity Discounts
· Use of EOQ when Costs are not known
· Period-Order Quantity
INDEPENDENT DEMAND ORDERING SYSTEMS
· Order Point System
· Determining Safety Stock & Service Levels
· Different Forecast and Lead-Time Intervals
· Periodic Review System
· Distribution Inventory
PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION
· Physical Distribution System
· Interfaces / Transportation
· Legal Types of Carriage
· Transportation Cost Elements
· Warehousing, Packaging and Material Handling
PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES
· Need for New Products
· Products Development Principles
· Product Specification and Process Design
· Factors Influencing Process Design
· Processing Equipment and Continuous Process Improvement (CPI)

3. LBI - Microsoft
LBI - Microsoft