In this course, students explore processes used to: develop sales and operations plans; identify and assess internal and external demand and forecasting requirements; and effect an achievable master schedule consistent with business policies, objectives, and resource constraints. The course focuses on developing and validating a plan of supply, relating management of demand to the environment, and developing and validating the master schedule.

Course Outline

Developing and Validating a Plan of Supply: Encompasses the processes, concepts and techniques for transforming business and market requirements into feasible and economical business and operations plans in various business environments. The processes include ensuring consistency among the functional plans, ensuring feasibility of all plans, and determining the form, location, and level of various resources (e.g. labor, capacity, inventory and capital) to satisfy anticipated demand.

Identifying, Quantifying and Assessing Demand: Focuses on the concepts, methodologies and techniques for managing projected and actual demand from the distribution network and customers. It addresses the business characteristics that relate to service level and demand.

Developing and Validating the Master Schedule: Focuses on the process of translating the higher-level aggregate plans into a feasible schedule that can be executed by operations and suppliers. It includes the concepts, approaches and methods for integrating demand forecasts, actual customer demand and the sales and operation plan into a specific master schedule in a variety of business environments.

Further information can be found at Central Iowa APICS - Master Planning of Resources

This class is a module in the CPIM Certification process. It can be taken independent of other modules.

Registration fee includes documentation of class materials.

Testing is not required but strongly encouraged at the end of the class.

The class will meet starting on 01/06/16 for eight to ten 2 hour sessions from 6pm - 8pm.

APICS CPIM education is essential if you are involved in:

• Operations
• Supply chain management
• Procurement
• Materials management
• Purchasing