balances resources and forecasted demand and aligns the organizations competing demands, from supply chain to final customer while linking strategic planning with operations over all planning horizons

 an approach to determine the quantity and timing of production for the intermediate future(usually 3 to 18 months ahead)

– the process of breaking an aggregate plan into greater detail

a timetable that specifies what is to be made and when.

 a planning strategy that sets production equal to forecast demand.

 –maintaining a constant output rate, production rate, or workforce level over the planning horizon,

– a planning strategy that uses two or more controllable variables to set a feasible production plan.

 –aggregate planning techniques that work with a few variables at a time to allow planners to compare projects demand with existing capacity.

–a way of solving for the optimal solution to an aggregate planning problem .

- capacity decisions that  determine  the allocation of resources to maximize revenue

a dependent demand technique that uses a bill of material inventory expected receipts and master production schedule to determine material requirements .

 a timetable that specified what is to be made and when.

 a listing of the components their description  the quantity of each required to make one  unit of a  product.

– bills of material organized by major subassemblies of by products options

 a material grouping created in order to assign an artificial parent to a bill of material; also called pseudo bills

 – bills of material for components usually subassemblies that exist only temporarily they are never  inventoried

 – a number that identifies items at the lowest level at which they occur

 in purchasing systems that time between recognition of the need for an order and receiving it; in production systems it is the order , wait, move, queues , setup and run times for each component .

a schedule that shows the total demand for an item (prior to subtraction of an hand inventory and scheduled receipts and (1) when it must be order from suppliers , or (2) when production must be stated to meet its demand by a particular date

 – the result of adjusting gross requirements for inventory on hand and scheduled receipts

Planned order receipt- the quantity planned to be received at a future date

 the scheduled date for an order to be released

 -  frequent changes in an MRS system

 for allowing a segments of the master schedule to be designated as not  to  be rescheduled. 

–in material requirement planning systems tracing upward the bill of material from the component to the parent item

 time units in a material requirements planning system

– the process of or techniques used in determining lot size

- a lot-sizing a lot sixing techniques that generates exactly what is required to meet the plan

 a lot sixing technique that issues order on a predetermined time interval with an order quantity equal to all of the intervals requirements

  system that allow with MRP in place inventory data to be augmented by other resources variables in this case MRP becomes material resource planning

- a system that provides feedback to the capacity plan master production schedules and production plan so planning can be kept valid at all times

-a report for  showing the resource requirements in a work center for all work currently assigned there as well as all planned and expected orders

 a timed phased stock replenishment plan  for all levels for a distribution   network

 an informational system for identifying and planning enterprise wide resources needed to take  make ship and account for customer orders

 supply-chain management systems in the grocery industry that ties sales to buying to inventory to logistics and to production

 A s system that allows operation personnel to manage facility work flows by tracking work added to a work center and its work completed

- cards that control the amount of work in a work center, aiding input/output control

 planning charts used to schedule resources an allocate time

– a special class o linear programming models that involves assigning tasks or jobs to resources

 – determining the order in which jobs should be done  at each work  center

 rules used to determine the sequences of jobs in process-oriented facilities.

 times each job spends waiting plus the times being processed

 -a sequencing rule that is an index number computed by deciding the time remaining until due dates by the work time remaining

an approach that minimizes processing time for sequencing a group of jobs through two work centers while minimizing total idle time in the work centers

- computerized short-term scheduling that overcomes the disadvantage of rule-base system by providing the user with graphical interactive computing.