Master Production & Operations in Riyadh's Competitive Market (5-Day Course)

Staying ahead in Riyadh's fast-paced business environment requires efficient production and operations management. At IIPD Global, we offer a comprehensive 5-day course designed for professionals in Riyadh, KSA. This course equips you with the skills to optimize production processes, make accurate project timelines, and achieve success in today's dynamic market.

Key Course Highlights:

• Probabilistic Time Estimates: Master the art of reliable project planning, even with uncertain outcomes.
• Planning & Budgeting: Understand the crucial connection between effective planning and resource allocation.
• Quality Management & Benchmarking: Learn to implement best practices and continuously improve your operations.
• Strategic Capacity Management: Optimize production capacity to meet demand and maximize efficiency.
• Sales & Operations Planning: Bridge the gap between sales and production for smoother operations.
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP): Master the effective management of inventory and materials.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for professionals in Riyadh's production and operations fields, including:

• Managers
• Supervisors
• Team Leaders
• Anyone involved in optimizing production processes

Course Outline

Explore the comprehensive course outline provided below and sign up today to enhance your production management and material requirements skills!

Module "1" – Importance of Strategic Planning

• Operations Strategy
• Definitions and practical implications
• Levels of Strategy in Organizations
• Strategy alignment with Operations
• Investment in Manufacturing strategy
• Functional strategy
• Manufacturing Fundamental Concepts
• Tradeoffs
• Economies of Scale
• Differentiation
• Mixed strategy
• Postponement
• Standardization
• Economies of Scope

Module "2" Production Strategies and Configurations

• Product Classification
• Effect of Consumer Goods on Production
• Effect of Product Life Cycle on Production Planning
• Manufacturing Operations Strategies
• De-Coupling Point
• Production strategies decision making
• Push and Pull Planning systems
• MRP
• JIT
• Kanban

Module "3" Process Strategies and Configurations

• Production systems
• Continuous flow
• Discrete flow
• Process systems
• Intermittent
• Repetitive
• Continuous
• The Product-Process Matrix (PPM)
• Basic factory layouts

Module "4" Strategic Capacity Planning

• Importance of capacity planning decisions
• Determinants of effective capacity
• Key decisions in production capacity planning
• Tradeoffs between make or outsourcing
• Vertical and Horizontal integration
• Determining capacity bottlenecks and required investments

Module "5" Production Planning and Control of Resources

• Assembly Line Balancing
• Assembly Line Balancing Equations
• Ranked Positional Weight Heuristic
• Job Shop Scheduling
• Scheduling multi-tasks on One station
• Scheduling multi-tasks on Two stations
• Scheduling multi-tasks on Multi stations

Module "6" Production Planning methods and techniques

• Economical Production Quantity
• Identifying variables
• Building economical model
• Minimizing total cost
• MRPII (Manufacturing Resources Planning)
• The integrated functional model
• BOM (Bill of Material)
• Importance of Modular BOM and Super BOM
• RCCP (Rough Cut Capacity Planning)
• ERP vs MRPII and ERPII evolution