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Production Planning

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Planning; Production programming

Definition

Production planning is the process of translating customer orders to jobs for the manufacturing plant with attached due dates.

Theory and Application

The production planning is not an isolated function, and its role is not only the production of a plan for the operations function. Production planning is instead interrelated and dependent by the information coming from procurement and selling, coordinated with the functions of marketing, manufacturing, engineering, finance, and materials management.

The Planning Hierarchy

Production planning problems can be grouped in terms of the level of detail and temporal horizon. In these settings aggregate production planning, production scheduling, and production control problems can be configured. At the first stage, problems arise to the decision of the quantity to produce for each product on a weekly basis, while the sequence of operations in a daily basis is considered as a problem in the...

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  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica, Via dei Taurini 19, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Stecca

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  1. CIRP Office Intern. Institution for, Paris, France

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  2. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Mechanical Engineering Department, Trois-Rivieres, Québec, Canada

    Luc Laperrière

  3. Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

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Stecca, G. (2016). Production Planning. In: The International Academy for Produ, Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_6569-5

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    Production Planning
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_6569-5

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