from the conferences organized by TANGER Ltd.
The success in production sphere lies in the art of the “right product” production, in right quantities, in right time, in good quality and for the price which is acceptable for the customer. The ability of the company to react flexible to the requirements of the market is one of its competitive advantages. If such a company has the capacities already planned it is often necessary to change the plans and partially re-organize the production because of a new order or the necessity to finish one product before another. First it is necessary to take into account the capacity of the company in the dependence of machine number, the number of workers and the number of working shifts in production process. On the other side it is necessary to make decisions based on costs. It is expectable that the company will react flexible to the requirements of customers and adapt the production. At the same time the company has to change its production plan not only according to these requirements but also according to economical difficulty minimization. One of the main tasks of the flexible planning is the detection of wrong decisions in the process of production plan creation. The production plan process has to be variable enough, however the variability must not negatively influence the product quality, reliability, supply rate and accuracy or final price. The flexible planning offers a company the freedom in best production process selection according to highest profit.
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