Offer benefit of time and place utility
Locate the product closer to the customer in both distance and time
Protects against uncertainty
Adjust safety stock NOT order quantity
Ability to meet the promised delivery date is key to good customer service
Requires good master production scheduling and execution
Major concern is delivery timing
Stock will be available for shipment
Setting fixed delivery time and meeting that commitment is critical
Expected demand is constant
order quantities are determined at the warehouse level
Quantity determination can incorporate quantity discounts and transportation economics
Shipped on scheduled ship dates
Quantity shipped is actual usage
ROP/EOQ (dominant method)
Base Stock Systems
Distribution Requirements Planning
How many warehouses
Where they should be located
Simulation
Heuristic Procedures
Programming
Provides a much more direct linkage between individual end products in the MPS and the capacity required at individual work center than does the CPOF
Needs more data
Very simple
Rqmt. of the firm’s processes
System costs
Business complexity
Available resources
Business size
Multifunctional in scope
Integrated
Modular
Facilitates MPC activities
Manage efficient flow of materials
Utilize people and equipment effectively
Use capacity of suppliers to respond to customer requirements
Manufacturing planning and control
HR
Finance
Supply chain logistics
Sales and marketing
DP: Finished goods
F: Customer served from FG inventory
DP: At component level
F: Maintaining configuration mgmt.
DP: Raw materials
F: Engineering mgmt.
DP: At the suppliers
F: Engineering mgmt.
ETO
MTO
ATO
MTS
FF: Annual or less
L: Years by years or quarters
FF: Monthly or quarterly
L: Several months to a year
FF: Constant
L: Few days to a week
Begins with forecast of individual products
Rolled up into product lines
Then into total business
Begins with total business
Breaks down into product families
Then to individual items
Run forecasting reports
Demand planning phase
supply planning phase
Pre SOP meeting
Make decisions on SOP
The products to be completed
The time of completion
Quantities
Capacity limitations
Costs of production
Other resource considerations
SOP plan