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In manufacturing companies, the medium & long term is usually static comparing to short term (more dynamic).
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(i) Introduction: In a manufacturing environment, in order to meet customers' needs to maintain our competitive advantage & market positioning, and also give an accurate and relatively certain forecast of our business, we use operations planning to calculate and schedule our medium & long term production activities(aggregate planning) and short term production activities, such as detailed work plan for individuals and /or collective production resources, for instance, in manufacturing environment, machines, labour ,departments(operations scheduling.) In manufacturing companies, the medium & long term is usually static comparing to short term (more dynamic). It is difficult to compensate short term mistakes, which may lose customers loyalties, lose market share. Internally speaking, it will make chaos in different departments and their plans will be re-scheduled. In order to avoid this, we need different information when giving operations planning for a batch production in the organisation. Cause production control can only act upon the information that it...
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