Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Aggregate Planning Today
- medium-range capacity
planning
- Time horizon: 3 to 18 months
- Goal: Achieve a
production plan to
satisfy demand
- Appropiate resource input and output levels
- Influencing demand and supply
- Basis to budget development
- Principal Characteristics
- 12 months of time horizon
- Updating of the plan periodically
- Demand is assumed to
be fluctuating, uncertain
or seasonal
- Possibility of changing demand and supply variables
- it may achueve low inventories,
good labor relations, low costs,
flexibility and good customer
services
- Facilities are considered fixed
- Decision options
- Two types
- Modifying demand
- Pricing
- Advertising and production
- Backlog or reservation
- Development of complementary products
- Modifying supply
- Hiring and layoff of employees
- Overtime and undertime
- Using Part-time/temporary labour
- carrying inventory
- subcontracting
- making operative arrangements