This course focuses on material and capacity scheduling and planning. It includes a detailed explanation of material requirements planning (MRP), a technique suitable for use in job shops. The course also introduces another material planning technique, material-dominated scheduling, which is applicable to process industries and other mature production environments. The course explains capacity requirements planning in detail and introduces other capacity-planning techniques, including processor-dominated scheduling.

1. Planning Material Requirements to Support the Master Schedule

2. Planning Operations to Support the Priority Plan

3. Planning Procurement and External Sources of Supply

   Further information can be found at Central Iowa APICS - Detailed Scheduling & Planning

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 September 6th for  3 hour sessions from 1pm - 4pm.

APICS CPIM education is essential if you are involved in:

Production and inventory management

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