E-raamat: Master Planning and Scheduling: An Essential Guide to Competitive Manufacturing

"Master planning and scheduling involves many functions of business and crosses most departmental lines. This is the first and only book designed to pull together a comprehensive body of knowledge about master planning and scheduling and to discuss the MPS process within the context of various manufacturing environments. It not only paints a broad perspective across the whole canvas of service and manufacturing operations but provides the fine details needed to understand MPS in specific types of businesses. Whether you make finished goods to stock, manufacturer or assemble or finish to customer order, package/re-package or kit to customer specification/order, or design and build products to customer specifications, you will find information and tools relevant to your business. Chapters 1 through 6 of Master Planning and Scheduling: An Essential Guide to Competitive Manufacturing define the master planning and scheduling process by explaining why and what to master plan and/or master schedule, the basic terminology, calculations, formats, mechanics, and how to manage change using master planning and scheduling. Chapters 7 through 12 cover specific tools and techniques used in various manufacturing environments (make-to-stock, make-to-order, design-to-order, engineer-to-order, make-to-contract, finish-to-order, kit-to-order, package-to-order). Chapter 13 is devoted to data integrity requirements in order to support an effective and efficient master planning and scheduling process. Chapters 14 through 17 describe process supporting functions of MPS, such as integrated business planning, resource requirements planning/rough cut capacity planning, supply management, and demand management. The book's chapters conclude with chapters 18 through 20 that provide guidelines for implementing and operating successful master planning and scheduling processes across the supply chain and entire enterprise."--

Discover the practical, real-world advantages of the Oliver Wight master planning and scheduling methodology.

The newly revised Fourth Edition of Master Planning and Scheduling: An Essential Guide to Competitive Manufacturing delivers a masterful exploration of today's master planning and scheduling techniques, as well as an insightful discussion of the future of the master planning and scheduling processes and profession.

Written in the context of an ever-evolving digital environment and augmented with new and critical information required to implement best practices, the book is a guide for practitioners and leaders on the principles of master planning and scheduling and its application in modern and future work environments.

In this book, readers will learn:

• Insights regarding top-down, bottom-up, and side-to-side integration of business practices in support of a company's strategic direction and tactical deployment
• The critical link between time-phased integrated business planning, master planning, master scheduling, capacity planning, and material planning
• "How-to" details and examples to support master planning and scheduling implementation and enhancements within the company's demand and supply organizations

Master Planning and Scheduling is an indispensable guide for supply chain professionals, planners and schedulers in all functional domains of a business. It also belongs on the bookshelves of any executive or manager who seeks to improve their understanding of best practice planning and scheduling processes and how those processes enable a business to outperform the competition through alignment, integration and synchronization across all functions in an organization.