Kamis, 07 Juni 2012

Master Production Schedule


This is an amalgam of known demand, forecasts and product to be made for finished stock. The phasing of the demand may reflect the availability of the plant to respond. The remainder of the schedule is derived from the MPS. Two key considerations in setting up the MPS are the size of `time buckets' and the `planning horizons'. A `time bucket' is the unit of time on which the schedule is constructed and is typically daily or weekly. The `planning horizon' is how far to plan forward, and is determined by how far ahead demand is known and by the lead times through the operation. There are three distinct steps in preparing an MPS:
  1. exploding
  2. netting
  3. offsetting.
Exploding
Explosion uses the Bill of Materials (BOM). This lists how many, of what components, are needed for each item (part, sub assembly, final assembly, finished product) of manufacture. Thus a car requires five wheels including the spare. BOM's are characterized by the number of levels involved, following the structure of assemblies and sub assemblies. The first level is represented by the MPS and is 'exploded' down to final assembly. Thus a given number of finished products is exploded to see how many items are required at the final assembly stage.
Netting
The next step is 'netting', in which any stock on hand is subtracted from the gross requirement determined through explosion, giving the quantity of each item needed to manufacture the required finished products.
Offsetting
The final step is 'offsetting'. This determines when manufacturing should start so that the finished items are available when required. To do so a 'lead time' has to be assumed for the operation. This is the anticipated time for manufacturing.
The whole process is repeated for the next level in the BOM and so on until the bottom is reached. These will give the requirements and timings to outside suppliers.


1 komentar:

Anonim mengatakan...

In simple words, we can say MPS is the schedule in production. Schedule to produce some products according the necessity of the market. This is an important aspect and will always be. The demand of market is the only things which make the company to make MPS. MPS determines how much production will be made. The three steps in MPS are important and should be understood by everybody who wishes for their company to expand. By knowing and understanding all of the three steps above, I think the schedule of production can be made easily. If a company can make this schedule, they can know how much energy that they need for scheduling. It is really profitable for the company, because they know when to work and when to rest. And may be they can give their employees more time to rest, according to the demand, so it can make the employees love the company and add more time before they quit. Thus increases worker’s productivity without adding more unnecessary costs.