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Production planning is the process of translating customer orders to jobs for the manufacturing plant with attached due dates.
Theory and Application
The production planning is not an isolated function, and its role is not only the production of a plan for the operations function. Production planning is instead interrelated and dependent by the information coming from procurement and selling, coordinated with the functions of marketing, manufacturing, engineering, finance, and materials management.
The Planning Hierarchy
Production planning problems can be grouped in terms of the level of detail and temporal horizon. In these settings aggregate production planning, production scheduling, and production control problems can be configured. At the first stage, problems arise to the decision of the quantity to produce for each product on a weekly basis, while the sequence of operations in a daily basis is considered as a problem in the...
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Stecca, G. (2019). Production Planning. In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6569
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