SCM 485- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Utilizing to customer by making use of the capacity of suppliers. Long term- provides info to make decisions about capacity to meet market demands. Helps with responding to current costs within the parameters of the company. Also has to help capacity planning with key suppliers. Medium term- matching supply and demand with product mix. Focuses on providing exact material and production capacity needed to meet customer needs. Also needs to maintain appropriate materials in the supply chain. Short term: detailed scheduling of resources in order to meet production requirements. An mpc is most likely embedded in an erp system. This can help to meet the various needs and requirements of the company. Top third: activities and systems for overall direction setting. Middle third: engine: refers to the set of mpc systems for detailed material and capacity planning. Bottom third: back end: depicts the mpc execution systems. Mpc systems and software, master production scheduling to the back-end systems.
