PRODUCTION

PLANNING AND
CONTROL
(MEFB 433)
Dr. Weria Khaksar
Email: weria@uniten.edu.my
Room No. BN-03-08

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CONTROL (MEFB 433)
Date and Time:
Monday (16-17)
Wednesday (10-11)
Thursday (12-13)
References:
1. Operations Management, Norman Gaither and Greg Fraizer, 9 th
Edition, Thompson Learning, 2001.
2. Operations management Processes and Supply chain, Lee J.
Krajewski, Larry P. Ritzman and Manoj K. Malhorta, 9 th Edition,
Pearson, 2010.
3. Operations Management, William Stevenson, 11 th Edition, McGrawHill, 2011.

PRODUCTION PLANNING AND

CONTROL (MEFB 433)
Assessment:
- Quizzes (4-6) (10%)
- Assignments (1) (10%)
- Project (1) (10%)
- Test (2) (20%)
- Final Exam (50%)

PRODUCTION PLANNING AND

CONTROL (MEFB 433)

Assignments

1. Preparing a review paper on one of the subjects of

PPC

with

at

least

10

references.

group

presentation is required on week 13.

2. Introducing a computer software in the filed of

PPC including a tutorial presentation. A group

presentation is required on week 14.
Tests
3. Test 1: Week 6
4. Test 2: Week 10

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Content:
1. Introduction:

Overview of Production Planning

and Control, Historical Background

2. Demand Forecasting:
Forecasting
Methods

3. Product,

Methods,

Process

Overview, Qualitative
Quantitative Forecasting

and

Service

Design:

Product Design, Process Design, Process Design in

Service

4. Facility Capacity, Location and Layout:

Capacity Planning, Facility Location, Facility Layout

5. Quality

Management:

Nature of Quality,
Traditional & Modern QM, QM Recognition, TQM

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Content:
6. Project Management:

Project Planning &

Control Techniques, CPM, PERT

7. Supply Chain Management:

Purchasing,
Logistics, Warehousing, Expediting

8. Just in Time and Lean Manufacturing:

Philosophy, Elements and Implementation,
Benefits

9. Production Planning:

Aggregate Planning,

MPS

10.Inventory Management:
Management Systems

Inventory

1- INTRODUCTION

1- Introduction
In the late 1970s, Walmart
was a normal marketer with
about 200 stores. Today,
Walmart is world's largest
public
corporation,
the
biggest private employer in
the world with over two
million employees, and the
largest retailer in the world
with more than 11000 stores
worldwide.

Why do some companies

succeed while others
struggle or fail?
There are a variety of
reasons, BUT

An important key in a
companys success or

In the 1990s, the Boeing

Company ran into trouble
when it could not meet
production deadlines. As a

1- Introduction

Organizati
Organizati
on
on

Finance
Finance

-Securing Financial
Resources
-Resource Allocation
-Budgeting
-Investment Analysis
-Providing operation
Fund
...

Operations
Operations

PRODUCIN
G THE
GOODS OR
PROVIDING
THE
SERVICES

Marketing
Marketing

-Assessing Consumers
Need
-Selling the
product/Service
-Promotion and
Advertisement
...

1- Introduction

Goods

produced
organizations.

Physical
items
by
business

Service : Activities

that provide
some
combination
of
time,
location, form and psychological
value.

1- Introduction

1- Introduction
Basic different between Manufacturing
(good-oriented) and Service (act-oriented)
Industry:
1. Degree of customer contact
2. Uniformity of input
3. Labor content of jobs
4. Uniformity of output
5. Measurement of productivity
6. Production and delivery
7. Quality assurance
8. Amount of inventory
9. Evaluation of work
10.Ability to patent design

1- Introduction
Process Management:
A
key
Aspect
of
PPC
is
process
management.
A process consists of one or more actions
that transform input into output.
- Upper-Management Processes:
Organizational Governance and Strategy.
- Operational Processes:
Purchasing, Production/Service, Marketing,
Sale.
- Supporting Processes:
Accounting, Human Resources, IT

1- Introduction
Career Opportunities in PPC:
Operations Manager
Production Analyst
Production Manager
Industrial Engineer
Time Study Analyst
Inventory Manager
Quality Analyst
Supply Chain Manager

1- Introduction
PPC and Decision Making:
PPC Experts make a number of key
decisions
that
affect
the
entire
organization:
WHAT: What resources and in what amount?
WHEN: When to order resources? When to
schedule the work? When to perform corrective
actions?
WHERE: where will the work be done?
HOW: How to design the product/service? How
will recourses be allocated?
WHO: Who will do the work?

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PRODUCTIVITY:

One of the main responsibilities of a manager is to

achieve productive use of an organizations
resources.
Productivity is an index that measures output
(goods and services) relative to the input (labor,
materials, energy and other resources).

Productivity is mostly important in organizations

with low cost strategy. The higher the
productivity, the lower the cost of the output.

1- Introduction
PRODUCTIVITY:
Example:
Determine
the productivity for these cases:
Productivity
Measures:
a.1.
FourPartial
workers installed
720 square meters of carpeting in
Productivity
eight hours.

2. Multifactor Productivity
b. A machine produced 70 pieces in two hours. However, two
3. Total
Productivity
pieces
were unusable.

1- Introduction
PRODUCTIVITY:

Factors
that
Productivity:
Methods
Capital
Quality
Technology
Management

Affect

1- Introduction
Historical Evolution of PPC:
The Industrial Revolution: (1770s
in England)

1- Introduction
Historical Evolution of
PPC:
Scientific
Management: Frederick
Winslow Taylor (Father of
scientific management),
Frank Gilbreth (Motion
study),
Henry
Gantt
(Reward systems and
scheduling), Henry Ford
(Modern Industry),

1- Introduction
Historical Evolution of PPC:
The Human Relations Movement:

1- Introduction
Historical Evolution of PPC:
Decision
Models:
Inventory
management
models,
statistical
sampling,
forecasting,
qualitative
models,

1- Introduction
Historical Evolution of PPC:
Japanese Manufacturers:
THE QUALITY REVOLUTION,
Productivity and quality improvement,
JIT,