10 Unit Credit Values
- Production Planning: Strategic; Tactical; Operational; Strategic Level Production Planning; Finances; Products; Markets; Constraints; Resources; Stages of production planning; Sales and Operations; Planning; Demand Management Programme; Master Production Schedule; Material Requirements Planning; Rough Cut Capacity Planning
- Business Plan: SWOT Analysis; Competing on Quality; Competing on Flexibility; Competing on Responsiveness; Order Winners and Order Qualifiers; PESTEL Analysis; The Planning Cycle
- Manufacturing Capacity: Capacity in the long term; Capacity in the intermediate term; Capacity in the short term; Capacity constraints; Use of Resources
- Resources: Natural; Human; Capital
- Improvements: Total Quality Management; Benchmarking; Kanban; Ishikawa
- Product Planning Control and Flow: Performance vs. Plan; Line Efficiency; Capacity Utilisation; First Time Quality; Customer Service Level; Variance; Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP); Continuous Flow (Mass Production Flow); Batch Production; Quality Control; Job Production; Final Assembly Schedule (FAS)
- Financial Resources: Raw Materials; Direct Labour; Factory Overhead; Inventory; Activity Based Costing (ABC); The Two-Stage Cost Assignment Procedure
- Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP): Top-Down Planning; Production Plans in relation to resources; Product Development
- Shop Floor Control: Gantt Charts; Enterprise Resource Planning
- Management: Manufacturing Operations Management; Supply Chain Management; Supplier Relationship Management; Customer Relationship Management
- Process Design Techniques: Make to Stock; Make to Order; Lean methodology; Total Productive Maintenance; 5S; Single Minute Exchange of Dies; Poka-Yoke; Total Available Cycle Time; Unplanned Downtime; Risk Assessment and Contingency Planning
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