INTRODUCTION
In today’s competitive global and business environment, it is essential to have a thorough knowledge and understanding of production planning and scheduling so as to reduce the overall manufacturing costs and thus improve productivity. Production planning and scheduling are concerned with the volume and timing of outputs, the utilisation of operations capacity, forecasting and developing material requirement plans, managing inventory, and managing for world class competition, just-in-time manufacturing and managing for quality.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
explain a comprehensive overview of the various aspects of operations
enhance forecasting skills
use tools and techniques for the analysis of production problems
CONTENTS
Operations Management and Production Planning and Control
Objectives
Functions
Forecasting
- Why forecast?
- Types and applications
- Methods
- Exercises
Aggregate Planning
Capacity Planning
- Definition of terminologies
- Breakeven analysis
- Case study
Master Scheduling for Production (MPS)
- Steps in doing MPS
- Case study
Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)
- Definition and benefits
- Computation and exercise
Operations Scheduling (OS)
- Relationship of OS and the above subjects
- Scheduling technique
Inventory Management
- ABC and VED analyses
- Various costs in inventory
- Exercise on inventory costing
- Types of inventory system
- Quantity discounts
FACILITATOR
Mr Andrew Cheah started his consulting and training experience in 1991 as a management consultant attached with a US based consultancy firm. He has extensive consulting experience in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, specialising in the areas of productivity improvement, cost savings, behavioral change survey and training. His clients came from such diverse industries as Electronics & Electrical, Steel Mill, Food Processing, Garment & Knitting, Furniture, Fertiliser, and Yarn/Thread. His last position was the Vice President of Operations before joining the manufacturing fraternity as Head of Departments with multiple responsibilities in the areas of Training, Facility, Industrial Engineering, Productivity and Safety. Under his leadership, the company won the National Productivity Award in 1999, organised by the National Productivity Corporation (NPC). He became the General Manager for an organisation listed on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia/Bursa Malaysia before setting up his own management consultancy practice. In addition to helping his clients enhance their organisational performance through management consulting projects, Andrew currently partners with a number of training providers in Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai and Africa to deliver training courses on numerous topics. He holds an MBA degree qualification of the University of Portsmouth, UK. His experience in international consultancy has also earned him a membership with the Association of Productivity Specialist (New York), in addition to being a qualified ISO 9000 Assessor (QMI/SIRIM). He speaks fluent English, Mandarin and Bahasa Malaysia.
*ELIGIBILITY FOR SME’S SKILL UPGRADING PROGRAMME
Manufacturing sector (including agricultural-based industries) and manufacturing-related services - annual sales value is not more than RM25 million or with less than 150 full-time employees
Services sector (including ICT) - annual sales value is not more than RM5 million or with less than 50 full-time employees
SMEs must be registered under the Companies Act 1965 (Private Limited Companies) or under the Registration of Business Act 1956 (Enterprise Companies) with majority Malaysian shareholders (minimum 60%)
5% group discount is applicable for registration of three (3) or more participants from the same organisation and of the same billing source. The FMM Institute reserves the right to change the facilitator, reschedule or cancel the programme and all efforts will be taken to inform participants of the changes.
The FMM Institute reserves the right to change the facilitator, reschedule or cancel the programme and all efforts will be taken to inform participants of the changes.
For further enquiries, please contact: Pn. Meeza / Pn. Hafifah of FMM Institute Kedah/Perlis Branch
at Tel: 04-421 6876/04-734 3110 Fax: 04-734 4057 or Email:
http://www.fmm.org.my/xtopia/trainingMS/meeza@fmm.org.my,hafifah@fmm.org.my