Production Planning Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Production Planning Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Production Planning related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Production Planning specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Production Planning Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Production Planning improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. What are the main obstacles for making a generalized and suitable system support, handling strategic, tactical, and operational planning issues, for process industries?
   
   

2. Is there a large variation between the planned time for manual assembly operation prepared by planners and the actual time logged by operators in the system?
   
   

3. Do the performance measured and priorities used at a strategic level reflect the business objectives, environmental requirements and associated priorities?
   
   

4. How many companies really do use the software for production planning and how many are still stuck in the phase of bringing everything to the fore?
   
   

5. Has the industry found the optimum balance of capacity utilization, production efficiency, and customer satisfaction that maximizes profitability?
   
   

6. Is there a need for so many sales, production planning and distribution departments if moving to customer pull and highly reactive systems?
   
   

7. Do the measures and priorities employed at business activity level reflect the higher level objectives, measures and priorities?
   
   

8. Do you schedule periodic pull/phase plan sessions to develop the work sequencing and clarify handoffs for upcoming milestones?
   
   

9. Is the master schedule defined at a high level with less detail and longer duration activities than the weekly work plan?
   
   

10. How can material planners, purchasing, and suppliers effectively supply materials on time if the schedule keeps changing?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Production Planning book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Production Planning self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Production Planning Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Production Planning areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Production Planning Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Production Planning projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Production Planning Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Production Planning project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree do members articulate the goals beyond the team membership?
   
   

2. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Do the stakeholders goals and expectations support or conflict with the Production Planning project goals?
   
   

3. Risk Audit: Does your organization have a process for meeting its ongoing taxation obligations?
   
   

4. Project Schedule: Understand the constraints used in preparing the schedule. Are activities connected because logic dictates the order in which others occur?
   
   

5. Change Management Plan: Change invariability confront many relationships especially the already stated that require a set of behaviours What roles with in your organization are affected and how?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Briefly summarize the work done by Maslow, Herzberg, McClellan, McGregor, Ouchi, Thamhain and Wilemon, and Covey. How do theories relate to Production Planning project management?
   
   

7. Risk Management Plan: Was an original risk assessment/risk management plan completed?
   
   

8. Probability and Impact Assessment: Have decisions that should be left open because of inadequate information on technology been identified and responsibility assigned for reducing the uncertainty?
   
   

9. Team Member Status Report: How does this product, good, or service meet the needs of the Production Planning project and your organization as a whole?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the main processes included in Production Planning project quality management?


 
Step-by-step and complete Production Planning Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Production Planning project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Production Planning project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Production Planning project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Production Planning project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Production Planning project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Production Planning project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Production Planning project with this in-depth Production Planning Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Production Planning projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Production Planning and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Production Planning investments work better.

This Production Planning All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.