Production planning (in a non class A environment) can be chaotic, and subject to the whims of marketing - or more accurately sales. Integrating sales and manufacturing strategies, and we always advocate rationalizing product mix can help a lot. There are some actions manufacturing plants can take to facilitate the manufacturing-sales-marketing integration process:
- Document a sales and production planning procedure, including forecasting, supply/demand balancing, verification of production forecast vs demonstrated plant performance, conformance to production plan, etc.
- Refinement of a sales and production forecasting system.
- Balancing of supply, demand, and inventory levels.
- Planning raw material demand as a result of these reviews.
- Linking current performance to business financials.
- Creation of a longer term logistics requirements plan.
- Creation of a process for resolving conflicts in the supply chain.
- Linking to supplier and customer information systems for planning purposes.
- Fully integrating production planning, and maintenance planning functions.
- Comprehensive training of production planners in planning systems, integrated logistics, and supply chain issues.
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