This course concentrates on the areas of prioritizing and sequencing work, executing work plans and implementing controls, reporting activity results, and providing feedback on performance. It explains techniques for scheduling and controlling production processes, executing quality initiatives and continuous improvement plans, and controlling and handling inventories. It includes how to schedule production and process plans, the impact of variation on MRP/ERP and methods for managing production resources. This course, targeted to production managers, planners and schedulers, will be taught in person in a mix of class lecture, group discussion and hands-on activities and exercises.
