Module Code - Title:
PT4007
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PLAN WITH SUPPLY CHAINS
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
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Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is part of a stream.
The centrality of planning activity is established in the context of the Supply-Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR).
Planning incorporates anticipation - represented here by Forecasting - and making optimal decisions about capacity of supply, storage, production, delivery and enabling processes, and about how to integrate and deploy this capacity optimally in terms of performance and cost trade-offs within the confines of limited resources.
Syllabus:
Demand and Order Management: Role of demand management in supply chain planning, Forecasting, Fundamentals of sales and operational planning.
Capacity Planning and Utilization: Role of capacity planning, Capacity planning techniques, Scheduling capacity and materials.
Production and Inventory Management: Master Production Scheduling (MPS) techniques, Bill of material structuring for MPS, Production Activity Control (PAC), Inventory management concepts, Inventory related costs, Multi-item management.
Distribution Requirements Planning: Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) in the supply chain, Available to Promise, Allocated Available to Promise.
Planning in Source, Deliver and Product Returns: Source requirements, Deliver requirements, Product return requirements, Reverse logistics.
Planning Systems: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Performance measures for system effectiveness, Material Requirements Planning (MRP) techniques, Advanced Planning and Optimisation tools and techniques,
Solving planning problems with Linear Programming: Planning problems requiring LP, Example LP models, Modelling and solving LP models in a spreadsheet, The purpose of and approaches to sensitivity analysis of LP Models.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
The management techniques for planning and controlling the flow of materials, information & value in a supply chain.
Current planning systems and how they are used for planning the supply chain.
Ability to distinguish and understand the requirements of the different aspects of planning in a supply chain context (e.g. Demand, capacity, production, supply and return)
Knowledge of the systems used in supply chain planning and understanding of the principles on which they operate.
Ability to explain planning principles through the application of analysis techniques to planning problems
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
N/A
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Vollmann, T. E., W. Berry, D. C. Whybark, F. R. Jacobs (2010)
Manufacturing Planning And Control Systems For Supply Chain Management: The Definitive Guide for Professionals, 6th ed.,
, McGraw-Hill
Supply Chain Council ()
SCOR Model Version 9.0
, Supply Chain Council
Voss, S., and D. Woodruff (2006)
Introduction to Computational Optimization Models for Production Planning in a Supply Chain
, Springer
Other Relevant Texts:
Ross, D. F. (2003)
Distribution Planning and Control: Managing in the Era of Supply Chain Management
, Springer
Wisner, J. and L. Stanley (2007)
Process Management: Creating Value Along the Supply Chain
, Thomson
Jonsson, P. and S-A Mattsson (2009)
Manufacturing Planning and Control
, McGraw-Hill
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Module Leader:
alan.ryan@ul.ie