10. Aggregate Production Planning and Master Scheduling

What are the 2 Basic Aggregate Planning Strategies?

1. Chase: changing output to meet demand.

2. Level: constant production rate

t/f: Aggregate operations planning is capacity planning for long-term horizons of over a year

false: typically for 12 months

t/f aggregate planning leads to the Master Production Schedule (MPS)

true

Master Production Schedule (MPS)

next 12 weeks or so, planning the quantity of products

what 2 ways is MPS done?

1. scheduling each product independently, then calculate total capacity requirements then adjust MPS

2. using optimization