Title: Linking planning strategies with supply chain in an extended environment: a theoretical framework

Authors: M. Jawwad Rafi Burney; Aneeqa Rauf; Syed Mehmood Hasan; Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan

Addresses: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan ' Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan ' Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan ' Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department, University of Sharjah, P. O. Box 27272, Sharjah, UAE

Abstract: Literature shows that to control production operations, to achieve optimum inventory level and to schedule the requirements according to the forecasted demand, implementation of material requirement planning (MRP) on the manufacturing system is necessary. It helps in establishing specifications of a production system and optimizes analysis of the process line focusing on establishing all the necessary data for the specification regarding the nature of production system and the inventories issues. To put MRP in to a process, the purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to integrate the work process flow that gives a simple image of the process flow for any general production system, concerning the operations and their management. Flow of data can be followed from forecasting of the demand to the delivery order, as well as tracking of material and customer order is made possible.

Keywords: aggregate production planning; master production schedule; rough cut capacity planning; MRP; material requirement planning; capacity requirement planning; supply chain management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMOM.2017.090163

International Journal of Modelling in Operations Management, 2017 Vol.6 No.4, pp.215 - 235

Received: 15 Apr 2017
Accepted: 07 Jun 2017

Published online: 02 Mar 2018 *

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