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)

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