Production Planning
Production planning ensures efficient execution, coordination and standardization of production processes.
What is Production Planning?
Production planning and control ensures that production processes run smoothly in the area of operational production management. This includes the comprehensive planning, control, monitoring and management of all processes in the production of goods and commodities. This makes it an important component of supply chain management.
Tasks of production planning
The tasks of production planning include, among others, the planning of primary requirements (goods in demand), the planning of secondary requirements (material requirements planning) as well as the entire production process planning. Production control follows the planning, it releases and controls the orders. In general, production planning is intended to optimize the entire production system and ensure that production achieves the required results. In this way, the potential of the entire production chain can be exploited.
Advantages of production planning
- Mapping of the entire planning process in one application
- Consolidation of all important data
- Guarantee of fully utilized capacities and on-time completion
- Most realistic possible mapping of the entire supply chain from raw material supplier to end user
- Shortened lead times and optimal inventory levels
- Avoidance of production downtimes
- Increased adherence to delivery dates
- Early detection of bottlenecks
Important functionalities of production planning software
- Reduction of production times and costs
- Optimization of employee deployment
- Avoidance of production downtimes and overstocks
- Shortened lead times
- Optimal stocks of raw materials
- Efficient utilization of capacities