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Level 7 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Material Requirements Planning and Capacity Control

LSC702 · Supply Chain Planning, Modelling and Analytics — Week 7 of 16

CourseLSC702
Week7 of 16
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This week’s topics

Material Requirements Planning and Capacity Control

  1. Bill of materials (BOM) explosion
  2. Rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP)
  3. Capacity requirements planning (CRP)
  4. Finite and infinite loading strategies
  5. Lec 24-Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
  6. Lec 27-Material Requirements Planning (MRP): Examples-I
  7. Lec 28-Material Requirements Planning (MRP): Examples-II

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Apply the concepts of Material Planning and Control and other capacity management strategies.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: apply the concepts of Material Planning and Control and other capacity management strategies.

Study materials

Videos

  • Lecture 12 MRP ERP · YouTube · Eddy Witzel · 9 min · for registered students
  • MRP vs MRP II vs ERP - A Comparison of Planning Systems · YouTube · Dr. Haywood · 6 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 8: Capacity Planning & Management · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 331–376 · for registered students
  • MIT OCW 15.760B Introduction to Operations Management (Spring 2004), Capacity · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
  • MIT OpenCourseWare 15.762J Supply Chain Planning (Spring 2011) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Supply Chain Operations Modelling
  • Week 2: Demand Forecasting and Predictive Modelling
  • Week 3: Strategic Supply Network Evaluation
  • Week 4: Facility Location Planning Models
  • Week 5: Inventory Control and Multi-Echelon Management
  • Week 6: Aggregate and Hierarchical Planning Frameworks
  • Week 7: Material Requirements Planning and Capacity Control
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Integration
  • Week 10: Supply Chain Simulation Methodologies
  • Week 11: Big Data Analytics in Supply Networks
  • Week 12: Applying Supply Chain Planning, Modelling and Analytics in …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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