DETAILED PROGRAMME

1. What Is Synchronized Planning?

Planning

Why Do Companies Plan?
How Do Companies Plan?

Manufacturing Planning and Control (MPC) System
MPC Overview
Strategic Planning
Operations Management Planning
Operations Execution
Distribution Planning
Technologies within Strategic Planning

What Is Synchronized Planning?
Synchronized Planning Definition
Digital Capabilities Model (DCM)
Why Synchronized Planning?
Level 1 Capabilities
Level 2 Capabilities

Additional Digital Information Technology for Supply Chains
Technologies within the Digital Supply Chain

2. Strategic Planning – Business Planning

Market and Technology Variables in Business Planning

Current and Evolving Environments
Industry Advances and Technological Evolution
Digital Development

Synchronized Business Planning Hierarchy

Introduction to the Planning Hierarchy
Synchronizing the Mission – Getting Everyone on the Same Page
Synchronizing the Vision – Keeping Everyone on the Same Page
Strategic Plans – Balanced Scorecard
Strategic Plans – Channel Network and Scenario Planning
Synchronizing Financial Planning and Growth Strategy
Financial Planning – Profit and Loss Statements
Financial Planning – Sales and General Administrative Expenses
Business Imperatives – Synchronizing Resources with Objectives
Functional Support – Synchronizing Recourses with Objectives
Synchronizing Core Process with Strategic Planning Objectives

Other Tools and Techniques to Support Synchronized Business Planning

Hoshin Kanri - Vertical and Cross Functional Alignment of Objectives
Portfolio Life Cycle Planning–Synchronizing Plans with Product Life Cycles
The ASCM Sustainability Framework
Operations Strategy – Manufacturing Environments
Operations Strategy – Inventory Planning
Supply Chain Strategies
Synchronizing Strategy for Multiple Business Units (in Larger Businesses)

3. Strategic Planning – Demand Planning and S&OP

Demand Planning

Misguided Assumptions
Synchronizing with Business Planning
Business Plan Objectives
Marketing Investments
Sales Management
Historical Time - Series Data
Digital Contract Management

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)

S&OP Overview
Prerequisite Activities and Data Gathering
Key Measurements
Scheduling the Monthly S&OP Cycle and Steps
Software and Product Line Templates
S&OP Cycle and Final Meeting Agenda
Roles and Responsibilities in S&OP
Tiered S&OP
S&OP Handoff to the Organization

4. Tactical Planning – Master Scheduling/MRP/Capacity Management

Master Scheduling Overview

Objectives of Master Scheduling
Relationship of Master Scheduling to Other Plans
Differences in Master Scheduling based on Manufacturing Strategy/Business Environments
Inputs to the MPS

The Master Scheduling Process

The MPS Grid
Steps in the Master Scheduling Process
Managing Change and the MPS

Material Requirements Planning Overview

Objectives of MRP
Relationship of MRP to Other Plans
Inputs to MRP
Bills of Material
Types of Bills of Material
Other Uses for Bills of Material

The MRP Process

The MPS Grid
Steps in the Master Scheduling Process
Managing Change and the MPS

Capacity Management

Types of Capacity
Capacity Planning Levels
Methods of Measuring Capacity
Capacity Required (Load)
Scheduling Techniques
Managing Overloads and Underloads

Closed - Loop Planning

5. Operations Execution – Purchasing and Production Activity Control, APS

Purchasing

Purchasing versus Procurement
Relationship with Synchronized Plans
Purchasing Cycle
Current Functions and Trends
Environmentally Responsible Purchasing
Ethical Sourcing
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Purchasing Performance Measurements

Production Activity Control (PAC)

PAC Objectives and Functions
Types of Manufacturing
Data Requirements
Manufacturing Lead Time
Scheduling Techniques
Sequencing and Dispatching Orders
Bottleneck Management
Reporting and Performance Measurement

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)

What Is APS?

6. Distribution and Logistics Planning

The Role of Distribution in Supply Chain Management

Distribution Management in the Supply Chain
Distribution Planning and the Business Plan

Channel Network Design

Importance of Good Channel Network Design
Channel Design Tree Structures
Insourcing or Outsourcing within the Channel Network
Labor and Equipment

Inventory Planning

Balancing Supply and Demand
Distribution Channel Dependencies
Push or Pull?
Order (Reorder) Point
Basic Order–Point Model and Order–Point Trigger
Distribution Requirements Planning
Which to Use–Order Point or DRP?

Warehousing

Function and Objectives of Warehousing
Strategic Decision Components
Warehouse Space and Capacity Planning
Types of Warehousing
Warehouse Automation and Systems

Transportation

The Transportation Function
Transportation Strategic Planning
Shipping Requirements
Track and Trace

Information Systems

Enterprise Resources Planning
Trace-and-Track Technology

• Planning and Demand Management professionals
• Master Planners and Master Production Schedulers
• Production Schedulers
• Recently appointed Planning, Production and Logistics Managers and staff resources.
• Managers and staff resources from other plant functions who wants to improve their knowledge on Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing Planning & Control  process (S&OP, MPS, MRP and PAC)
• ERP consultants
• Operations and Supply Chain Management Consultants

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