The Manufacturing Fundamentals course is aimed at providing all manufacturing professional employees with a basic understanding of key manufacturing principles and an overview of manufacturing planning and control. This course serves as a primer for the beginner.

Planning is essential to successful businesses. This course is designed for manufacturing planners and schedulers and provides an initial introductory insight to the master planning process.

Manufacturing Planning is essential to successful businesses. This course is designed for manufacturing planners and schedulers and provides an initial introductory insight to the master scheduling process.

To be sure that the published master schedule is realistic and achievable a high-level capacity feasibility study is performed, called rough-cut capacity planning. This course is designed for master schedulers, and manufacturing planners and provides the basic insights as to the RCCP concepts with an example of the calculations.

A very important by-product of the master scheduling process is the available-to-promise data. This course is designed for master schedulers, Demand Planners, and manufacturing planners and provides the basic insights as to the ATP concepts and their calculations with examples.

In the near future, courses covering demand forecasting, material planning, operations management-including Lean, capacity management, quality management, logistics, warehousing, distribution, transportation, procurement, and accounting for manufacturing.

Inventories are relevant for almost all businesses. They can represent a significant percentage of a company’s total assets. Therefore, it is extremely important for managing (planning and controlling) inventories from raw material to consumption. This course provides a review of the basic terms and definitions used in managing inventories and is designed for all employees involved with inventory flow.

There are many methods for replenishing items in inventory. This course identifies the popular ones and describes the characteristics of each. Buyers and planners will benefit from taking this course.

A key objective in inventory management is to balance providing customer service while optimizing the costs. Influencing this objective is the question of how much to buy. In this lot-sizing course aimed for supply chain managers, buyers and planners, basic lot-sizing theories will be examined.

A way of avoiding stockout costs is to carry extra inventory in the form of safety stock. Safety stock is designed to buffer against uncertainty in supply and demand. This course describes safety stock and how to determine safety stock by using three different methods. Demand planners, buyers and supply planners will benefit from this course.

A very popular method used in controlling inventory is referred to as the ABC inventory control method. This method employs the 80/20 rule. In this course you will learn how the ABC method is calculated and how to use its analytical power. The power of this analysis tool causes this course to be recommended for all employees to understand how to use it for prioritization of items.

Inventory accuracy is absolutely critical for good business decision making in a company. The important elements are part description (part number), quantity, and location where stored. Accurate inventory records allows a firm to operate an effective materials management system for insuring customer service and the ability to analyze the inventory data. In addition, it allows planners and inventory analysts to be more efficient.

When we teach inventory accuracy from the theoretical textbook it simply provides good theory for folks to know for things like certification examinations, but is it practical? In this course I apply my 60 + years of experiences with inventory accuracy and present some hopefully refreshing ideas on inventory record accuracy