Detailed production planning is largely related to efficiency and lean manufacturing practices. It simply involves the careful consideration of variables that affect production. Detailed production ...

Production planning takes anticipated capacity requirements and translates them into needs for specific production elements. It allows a company to fulfill sales projections in an efficient manner ...

The hydrocarbon industry, like many other process industries, has typically optimized its value chain using a siloed approach for supply chain planning, production planning, production scheduling, ...

Machine learning has been successfully applied to demand planning, but leading suppliers of supply chain planning are beginning to work on using machine learning to improve production planning. But ...

Non-connected, siloed data and rigidity of commercial production planning solutions hinder production processes for manufacturing and consumer goods businesses ...

Material requirements planning (MRP) is a computer-based inventory management system designed to assist production managers in scheduling and placing orders for items of dependent demand. Dependent ...

Effective and efficient manufacturing operations require close integration between long-run planning and short-run production scheduling. A testament to this is the decades-old field of research and ...

Cogna is partnering with Tropicana Brands Group to transform how it plans and produces juice at its Zeebrugge facility. The ...