Reference no: EM133189345
Demand Management Scheduling Assignment
A scheduler's job is to take outputs from S&OP, aggregate planning, MRP, MPS and company strategy to make this data usable to the organization in the form of a production schedule. Based on this production schedule other departments can plan human resources, maintenance etc.
Based on the supplied Master Production Schedule and production constraints build a daily (by shift) breakfast cereal production schedule for six weeks in 2021by line by product.
Include in your submission:
• A summary as to your thinking and strategy. Why did you choose this particular strategy? Do you have any conclusions regarding the schedule?
• Percentage of demand in total, by family and by sku that you produced by this plan
• The number of changeovers that were necessary to complete your plan
• The total dollar contribution if you were able to produce every case and the percentage of that which was actually produced
• What version of the assignment you are working on
• Please save your assignment in the following form "Assignment 4-version x- name"
• Place in Dropbox by due date
• Failure to include the above in the submission will result in significant reduction in grade
The assignment will be marked both objectively and subjectively. Please ensure you include each of the points above in your summary. It will be marked out of 50 and is worth 17.5% of the course grade.
Version 2 instructions:
• Choose four of the five production lines to make your production plans
• Create a by shift by day by sku (stock keeping unit) by line production plan for the six weeks beginning onJanuary 4 and running through to the middle of February
• If you have two weeks in a month to schedule remember to split the monthly volume
• You must not exceed line capacity
• You may encounter situations where you have too much or too little capacity; in the latter it will be up to you to determine priority skus to produce
• Complete the assignment using the Excel template provided
Version 2 constraints:
• Due to freshness concerns one can only build inventory six weeks in advance
• Families need to be run together
• The plant runs 3 shifts a day 5 days a week. Overtime is available, but overtime costs 1.5 times more than regular shifts and the plant is restricted to two overtime shifts a week
• Due to Christmas vacation the plant is down the last week of December
• Due to New Year's Day there is a vacation day on January 1
• Due to Family Day, there is a vacation day the third Monday of February
• Due to Thanksgiving, there is a vacation day the second Monday of October
• There is one cleaning shift per week, typically the last shift of the week
• Line 1 is down for one week in November for Maintenance
• Line 2 is down for one week in January for Maintenance
• Line 3 is down for one week in October for Maintenance
• Line 4 is down for three days (February 10,11,12) for Maintenance
• Line 5 is down for one week in March for Maintenance
Attachment:- Demand Management.rar
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