The operational planning in case of variable demand based on example of furniture production

Abstract

The main goal of this project is that the reader fully understands the concepts of Sales and Operation Planning and Material Requirement Planning, all the variables involved in them, the specific terms needed to apply these procedures and, finally, the importance that both methods have in the actual business world. The objective of the first part of the project is that the reader can deepen his or her knowledge about S&OP and MRP, in case he or she already knows about them, or start to get familiar with them, if he or she has never listened about them before. The second part of the project -the example of how to apply MRP to a furniture company production system- aims to reinforce the learned concepts and clarify all the doubts and questions the reader may have after finishing the theoretical part.