Lecture Outline • The Sales and Operations Planning Process • Strategies for Adjusting Capacity • Strategies for Managing Demand • Quantitative Techniques for Aggregate Planning • Hierarchical Nature of Planning • Aggregate Planning for Services Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 14-2 Sales and Operations Planning • Determines resource capacity to meet demand over an intermediate time horizon • Aggregate refers to sales and operations planning for product lines or families • Sales and Operations planning (S& ...
Major functions covered in the production management system are as follows: A- Planning :- Planning is the main function of management. All other functions follow the planning function. (a) Designing conversion systems. - Operations strategy - Forecasting - Product and process selection - Capacity planning - Facility location planning - Layout planning (b) Scheduling conversion systems - Scheduling systems - Aggregate planning - Operations scheduling 2 Planning • Identifying and selecting appropriate goals and courses of action for an organization ...
Chapter 8 Production and operations management Chapter 11: Strategic Leadership Learning outcomes • Explain what is meant by the term ‘operations management’ • Understand some of the basic concepts of operations management • Understand the relationship between operations and strategy • Explain the roles of operations within strategy • Understand the concept of planning operations capacity • Understand the importance of product design and transformation process design Chapter 11: Strategic Leadership Learning outcomes (continued) • Understand the concept of ...