Production planning improvement in a t-shirt printing company using Material Requirement Planning (MRP) approach: a case study
Material requirement planning (MRP) is one of production planning and control (PPC) concept used for short-term scheduling. Sibawaih Ventures faced problem in handling customer order when their business receive more order than usual. A case study is conducted to T-shirt A production to assist...
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| Format: | Book Section |
| Language: | English |
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Penerbit UTHM
2022
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6833/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6833/1/6.pdf |
| Summary: | Material requirement planning (MRP) is one of production planning and control (PPC) concept
used for short-term scheduling. Sibawaih Ventures faced problem in handling customer order
when their business receive more order than usual. A case study is conducted to T-shirt A
production to assist Sibawaih Ventures in planning their production. By studying product structure
of T-shirt A and dependency of each part, as well as lead time required to complete T-shirt A,
MRP schedule is generated. MRP schedule shows that, Sibawaih Ventures can produce 800 t�shirts in 7 days time, thus, customer orders can be met in a timely manner. MRP schedule
provides all information provided by production people to run production, while management can
use MRP schedule to control and monitor production accordingly. |
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