The MPS is a plan for manufacturing; it reflects the needs of the marketplace and the capacity of manufacturing and forms a priority plan for manufacturing to follows: The MPS forms a vital link between sales and production as follows:
Toyota has designed seven important sources of waste in manufacturing. The first four relate to the design of the manufacturing system and the last there to the operation and management of the system. Which one of the following is NOT out of those sources of waste?
The inputs needed for a capacity requirement plan are open shop orders, planned order releases, routings, time standards and work center capacities, this all information can be obtained from:
Any changes can be made to the MPS as long as it is within the limits set by the production plan. Changes are routine and are often made by the computer program. This is the scenario in zone of time fence.
1) What are the priorities-How much of what is to be produced and when? 2) What is available capacity-What resources do we have? 3) How can differences between priorities and capacity be resolved? These questions must be answered: