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.

An effective manufacturing planning method is to develop a master plan first, and then secondly a detailed schedule and plan.

Master planning consist of two very important levels of planning: a long-term approach referred to as sales and operations planning and a mid-term activity called master scheduling.

This course focuses on the mid-term activity called master scheduling and covers the basics of master scheduling, managing a master schedule, and examples of the master schedule basic calculations.