Overview

Why Attend

The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to perform all the essential tasks in a production environment. The course includes important concepts such as forecasting demand, capacity planning, determining requirements and scheduling. Participants in this interactive course will learn all the critical processes, formulas and calculations required to manage production systems effectively.

Course Methodology

This course relies on the use of individual and group exercises aimed at helping participants learn all production planning activities. The course also features the use of a number of case studies followed by discussions. In addition, this course incorporates pre and post testing.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Construct a framework for production planning and demonstrate how it fits within the supply chain context
Create forecasts for the expected demand on an aggregate level and use them as a basis for all future planning and scheduling
Estimate and control the capacity requirements and the optimum utilization of the resources
Assemble and manage sales and operations plans and develop chase and level production strategies using time phased grids
Identify optimum inventory level, lead time, re-ordering point and production quantities
Develop a detailed master production plan that shows the timing and the quantity of planned production and establish material requirements planning system based on the master plan
Generate performance measurement indicators for a production system

Target Audience

Professionals involved in any production or operation facility and interested in learning about all the important aspects of a production environment including planning, scheduling, forecasting and production management.

Target Competencies

Forecasting demand
Strategy planning
Decision making
Planning and scheduling
Inventory management
Production management
Material requirements planning
Performance measurement

Course Outline

Production Planning and Control (PPC)
- Defining production planning and control
- Areas of influence on PPC
- A framework for a PPC system
- PPC systems activities
- Productivity in production environment
Demand management
- Demand management in PPC systems
- Independent and dependent demand
- Forecasting framework
- Forecasting techniques
- Evaluating forecasts
Capacity planning
- Measuring capacity
- Capacity utilization
- Calculating capacity requirements
- Cost volume analysis
- Break even analysis
- Decision tree
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
- S&OP fundamentals
- S&OP displays
- Time phased planning
- Modifying the S&OP
- The basic trade-offs in S&OP
- Evaluating alternative plans
Inventory management
- Types of inventory
- Inventory costs
- Economic order quantity model
- Inventory order cycle
- Reorder point
- Economic production quantity
- Multi criteria ABC analysis
Requirements planning and scheduling
- Master production scheduling activities
- Master production scheduling techniques:
  - The time phased record
  - Available to promise
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Bill of material
- MRP processing
- The basic MRP record
- Material planning for:
  - Lot-for-Lot
  - Different lot sizes
Performance measurement
- Key performance indicators
- Benchmarking and standards
- Measuring performance
- Improving current production system

Schedule & Fees

2026 Schedule & Fees

There are no public sessions remaining for the course this year. Please contact us if you wish to have a customized in-house session, or to find out how an additional public session can be scheduled.

2027 Schedule & Fees

10 - 14 Jan, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

10 - 14 Jan, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

31 Jan - 4 Feb, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

31 Jan - 4 Feb, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Apr, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Apr, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

2 - 6 May, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

2 - 6 May, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Jul, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

11 - 15 Jul, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

1 - 5 Aug, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

1 - 5 Aug, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

10 - 14 Oct, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

10 - 14 Oct, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

31 Oct - 4 Nov, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

31 Oct - 4 Nov, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

Production Management and Material Requirements Planning

Overview

Why Attend

Course Methodology

Course Objectives

Target Audience

Target Competencies

Course Outline

Schedule & Fees

2026 Schedule & Fees

2027 Schedule & Fees