Advanced Production Planning and Control Course

Name: Advanced Production Planning and Control Training Course
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Translate demand into feasible material, capacity, and shop-floor schedules with controlled execution feedback.

Advanced Production Planning and Control Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Phuket, Porto, Tashkent, Tokyo, Accra, London and more
Next session: 8 – 12 November 2026, Phuket
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Advanced Production Planning and Control Training Course

Overview

Advanced Production Planning and Control Training Course is a one-week advanced course for production, materials, operations, supply-chain, plant-control, and industrial-engineering functions who leave with a Closed-Loop Production Control File. Participants connect demand, aggregate plans, master schedules, material requirements, capacity, shop-floor sequencing, execution feedback, and replanning. The course converts separate planning transactions into feasible and traceable manufacturing decisions. Agile Leaders Training Center presents advanced production planning and control.

Who Should Attend

Functions responsible for demand translation, production plans, and master schedules
Teams responsible for bills of material, MRP parameters, and planned-order decisions
Functions responsible for work-center capacity, loading, and finite scheduling
Groups responsible for shop-floor sequencing, dispatching, and work-in-process control
Systems functions responsible for ERP, MES, planning data, and execution feedback
Operations leaders responsible for schedule performance, bottlenecks, and replanning

The course assumes participants already interpret manufacturing demand, inventory, routing, bill-of-material, and work-center data; it leaves out introductory operations management, software configuration, and lean-transformation design.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that convert demand into coordinated material, capacity, and execution decisions.

Production planning, manufacturing operations, and industrial engineering
Materials management, supply planning, and inventory control
ERP, MES, manufacturing data, and plant-control functions
Automotive, electronics, and industrial-equipment manufacturing
Food, pharmaceutical, and consumer-products production
Process manufacturing, packaging, and contract-manufacturing operations

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Build an integrated production planning hierarchy
Analyze master schedules and available-to-promise positions
Apply MRP logic to net requirements and planned orders
Evaluate rough-cut and detailed capacity feasibility
Prioritize finite schedules, sequences, and dispatch decisions
Diagnose execution variance and closed-loop replanning actions

Course Agenda

Day 1: Structure the Planning Hierarchy

Demand, Forecast, and Customer-Order Reconciliation Sheet
Aggregate Production Plan and S&OP Interface Map
Manufacturing Strategy and Planning-Environment Matrix
Product Structure, Bill-of-Material, and Routing Audit
Closed-Loop Production Planning Architecture

Day 2: Build the Master Production Schedule

Master Production Schedule Grid and Planning Horizon
Time-Fence, Firming, and Schedule-Change Rules
Available-to-Promise Calculation and Order-Promise Record
Rough-Cut Capacity Planning Resource Profile
Master-Schedule Feasibility and Exception Register

Day 3: Plan Materials and Capacity

MRP Gross-to-Net Requirements Calculation
Bill-of-Material Explosion and Low-Level Coding Method
Lot-Size, Safety-Stock, and Lead-Time Parameter Sheet
Planned-Order Release and Exception-Message Decision Log
Capacity Requirements Planning Load-versus-Capacity Chart

Day 4: Control Shop-Floor Execution

Finite-Capacity Loading and Work-Center Schedule Board
Operation Sequencing and Dispatch-Priority Rule Matrix
Work-in-Process and Input-Output Control Dashboard
ERP-to-MES ISA-95 Information-Exchange Map
Schedule Adherence, Bottleneck, and Variance Diagnostic

Day 5: Practice Production Control Decisions

Suggested Exercise: Reconcile Demand and the Master Schedule
Suggested Exercise: Resolve MRP Action Messages
Suggested Exercise: Balance Capacity and Sequence Orders
Suggested Exercise: Diagnose Variance and Replan Production
Capstone Exercise: Present a Closed-Loop Production Control File

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to connect planning parameters, system outputs, capacity evidence, and execution feedback.

Suggested activity: convert forecasts and orders into an aggregate plan, master schedule, time fences, and available-to-promise positions.
Suggested activity: explode a product structure, calculate net requirements, select lot sizes, and resolve planned-order messages.
Suggested activity: test rough-cut and detailed capacity, load work centers, sequence operations, and issue dispatch priorities.
Suggested activity: compare actual output with the schedule and document bottleneck, variance, and replanning decisions.

FAQs

Who suits advanced production planning and control training, and what does it assume?

Advanced production planning and control training suits production, materials, operations, supply-chain, plant-control, and industrial-engineering functions. It assumes participants can interpret manufacturing demand, inventory, routing, bill-of-material, and work-center data.

How does production planning and control differ from broad operations management?

Production planning and control links demand, master schedules, materials, capacity, sequencing, dispatching, execution feedback, and replanning. Broad operations management also addresses strategy, process design, quality, supply networks, and organizational performance.

How do MPS and MRP work together in production planning?

The master production schedule states which end items are planned by period. MRP uses that schedule, bills of material, inventory, receipts, lead times, and order policies to calculate component requirements and planned-order actions.

How is capacity feasibility tested before production orders are released?

Capacity feasibility is tested first against critical resources with rough-cut profiles and then against detailed work-center loads. Planners compare required and available capacity, timing, sequence, and constraints before firming or releasing orders.

What makes production control a closed-loop process?

Closed-loop production control compares actual material, capacity, completion, queue, and schedule evidence with the plan. Exceptions trigger rescheduling, parameter correction, priority changes, escalation, or replanning while preserving the decision record.

Conclusion

Participants take a Closed-Loop Production Control File back to their organization. It links demand, master schedules, MRP, capacity, order release, sequencing, dispatching, work-in-process, execution evidence, and replanning. The file changes disconnected planning outputs into a traceable basis for feasible schedules, controlled release, exception resolution, and manufacturing-performance review.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewAdvanced Production Planning and Control Training Course is a one-week advanced course for production, materials, operations, supply-chain, plant-control, and industrial-engineering functions who leave with a Closed-Loop Production Control File. Participants connect demand, aggregate plans, master schedules, material requirements, capacity, shop-f…

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Advanced Production Planning and Control Course