Production Planning: Customer Perspective Supplier Perspective
Production Planning: Customer Perspective Supplier Perspective
Chapter 1
Global environment:
Global competition
Customer expectations: price quality delivery pre- and post-sale service flexibility
availability customisation...
The economy and government regulation
Quality
Order qualifiers: competitive characteristics that a firm’s products must exhibit to be considered by customers.
Order winners: competitive characteristics that makes me special from my competitors in the market.
MTS make to stock low lead time of the customer high volume low variety.
MTO make to order intermediate lead time of the customer average volume average variety.
ETO engineer to order very high lead time of the customer low volume high variety.
ATO assemble to order intermediate lead time of the customer low volume high variety.
PTO Package to order high lead time of the customer low volume high variety.
Exercise 1:
Process
MTS ETO/ATO or MTO
environment/production
Refineries(continuous) / milk
Flow Assembly of car(repetitive)
manufacturing(continuous)
Manufacturing of skis /Ready to
Intermittent Mechanical (MTO/ETO)
wear clothing
Project Collective housing Ships /Satellites (ETO)
Exercise 2:
Product Process
layout(flow) layout(intermittent)
Capital cost + -
Flexibility - +
Annual setup cost - +
Run cost - +
Work-in-process inventory - +
Production and inventory control costs - +
Lead time - +
Chapter 2 PIC
Advantages:
stable inventory
inventory can be kept to a
minimum.
production varied to meet
sales requirements.
Disadvantages:
Costs of hiring, training...
costs of layoffs
Possible unavailability of
needed work skills
Capacity must match
maximum demand
Advantages:
Avoid labor and capacity costs of
demand matching
Avoids changeover costs lower
the average production costs per
item
Disadvantages:
Buildup of inventory