Production Planning & Control (Electives POM)

Paper Code: 
MBP-621
Credits: 
4.0
Contact Hours: 
40.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To get acquainted with the basic aspects of Production Management. The course attempts to discuss various important planning, organizing and controlling aspects of Production Management. Through text and case studies, this course prepares for a study of different production issues in manufacturing and services organizations.
10.00
Unit I: 
History and Overview of Production Management

Capacity Planning, Location Planning, Types of Production Processes. Layout Planning, Productivity Management, Deterministic and Probabilistic Inventory Management models, Purchasing and Warehousing. Methods Study, Motion Study and Work Measurement. Value Analysis

5.00
Unit II: 
Production systems

Type of production, Functions of production, planning and control, production procedure.

8.00
Unit III: 
Production order

Process charts, Production master programme breakdown production order and preparation of various cards like job card, materials requisition from inspection card.

7.00
Unit IV: 
Production –Planning

Production planning for continuous batch and job order production, Capacity planning, planning models-static and dynamic.

10.00
Unit V: 
Scheduling

Forms of Schedules, Loading and Scheduling, Basic scheduling problems: Flow production scheduling; job shop scheduling. Random order scheduling; product sequencing. Production control of processes and production activities. Cost control; Dispatching and expediting; Recording progress and feedback information in order to improve future planning.

Essential Readings: 
  • S. K Mukhopadhyay, Production Planning & Control, Prentice Hall of India, August 2007
References: 
  1. P.Stephen, Fundamentals of Production Planning & Control, Pearson Education