Machining Production Planning

Mission

Management of production plan (MPS), ensuring a balance between actual needs and future customer demand. 

Main Responsibilities

Production Planning

• Planning and prioritizing operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
• Determining workeforce, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand
• Assign workers and other staff to particular production operations
• Schedule shift according to production needs
• Development of the main production plan (MPS), also by planning family, according to the “Master Schedule”, available resources (materials, line capacity and resources) and production priorities 
• Ensure a correct management of MRP and other specific system used by the plant (NICIM, etc..) in order to satisfy the customer's request and optimizing the value of the stock   
• Ensure the management of daily scheduling and the monitoring of order progress

Budget

• Obtain output information (number of finished products, percentage of defectives etc.)
• Prepare and submit status and performance reports
• Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget