Role of Planning Process in Manufacturing:

In manufacturing industry, planning plays an important role. The flow of planning procedure in manufacturing industry may be given by following flow chart

Figure: The Task for Various Planning Activities Related to Manufacturing

The determination of technologies and procedures required to produce any product comes under the process planning activity. Strategic capacity planning process dealt with long-term capabilities of overall production system. For servicing the manufacturing procedure, aggregate planning process is responsible. For easy understanding of the planning procedure, all activities associated to the planning are given in following figure.