Production and operation management - 3GMAF352

Goal(s)

The main objective of the class is to review and understand the major actors and levels of resources management in an enterprise and their interdependencies with a specific focus on production management from the Strategic level to the execution:
=> Strategy
=> Business Plan
=> Sales and Operations Plan
=> Master Scheduling
=> Detailed scheduling and Planning
=> Execution and Control
More specifically:
* Understand the resources planning process
* Understand the different flows
* Understand MRP planning process
* Know how to calculate a MRP grid
* Calculate and analyse a Kanban loop

Content(s)

In this class, differents processes and tools used in order to manage resources for an enterprise will be explained.
More specifically tools traditionnaly used when managing production will be presented and applied under the form of Practical sessions (TP) and directed sessions (TD).
The following points will be adressed:

• Structure and interdependancy of major processes
• Planning Levels and processus
• Execution Process
• Production resources management: MRP
• JIT principles will be reviewed with a specific focus on differences between MRP and Kanban
• Scheduling and Mrp grid

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