The production manager manages scheduling and planning of production. They often may want to reshuffle existing orders to make room for more urgent orders. The production manager considers exceptions to be the rule.

Main Work Tasks

To See

Describe the physical capabilities, such as resources, calendars of capacity, and locations.

Plan for Resource Availability

Prepare an overall plan that reflects predicted purchasing, transfer, and production to be finished with material requirements planning.

Perform Master Planning

Prepare a detailed executable supply plan based on production master data, existing supply orders, and new demand to calculate what and when to buy, transfer, or produce.

Perform Material Requirements Planning

Transform suggested planning lines to supply orders; purchase, transfer, or production, and notify the warehouse to pick components.

Communicate Production Plans

Related Tasks

To See

Fine schedule operations according to available capacity over time to align with other orders in a production plan.

Schedule Production Activities

Enter different forecast figures, such as sales budgets, production demand for sold and produced items, and blanket sales orders, to input to high-level sales and production planning.

Establish Sales Forecasts

Define items and their process structure.

Design and Engineering

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