3. Planning
• Long term strategic planning- management
• Sales and operations meeting
• Gaps in performance
• Aggregate planning- capacity, inventory, stock
outs, inventory
• Master production schedule (MPS)- individual
commodities
• Linked to the manufacturing- when product
will be demanded
4. Planning
• Production- master production schedule
• Date of batches
• Synchronized operations- efficient
• Master production scheduler- arrangement
• Manufacturing resource planning- effective
planning of all resources
• Business Process control system- transactions
5. Drivers of Supply Chain
• Facilities
• Inventory
• Information
• Transportation