Input - Process - Output of Long-term Planning / Scheduling
As I mentioned in the previous posting, the planning and scheduling system has three stages.
The first is the long-range planning/scheduling that determines production combinations like portfolio and establishes production or construction strategies based on the sales and business goals and the company's long-term vision.
The second, there is an annual business plan to achieve the company's vision and each year's goal which set in the long-term planning and scheduling and to implement the company's optimized production strategy.
Finally, there is an execution plan to achieve the annual production target.
Today, let's look at the first step, the inputs and outputs for long-term planning/scheduling, and the essential process for creating its outputs.
The input information is listed below,
1. Market Information
2. Company Vision
3. Potential project list from the marketing department
4. Yard facilities' capacity
5. Basic build strategy
6. Outsourcing vender list
The first thing to make a long-term plan is setting the company's vision. In other words, in the next few years, what will the company's profits be? Or it will be similar to the long-term goal of achieving some sales or profits goal in a few years.
In order to achieve the vision, it is necessary to determine how much profit goals have to be achieved each year.
Next, it is necessary to determine how much production or construction will be achieved each year to make the profit target.
It is fortunate, if achieving these production and construction goal is possible with the current yard facilities. But goals are usually chosen that are difficult to achieve easily.
If so, it is necessary to decide whether to invest in facilities.
Facility investment should be made by considering together with decisions on the amount of work to be produced in the current or invested yard facilities and the amount of work to be outsourced.
Long story to short, the processes are below,
1. Market analysis
2. Select potential projects
3. High level scheduling & planning
4. Yearly goals and plan: sales, benefit, production, resource
As a result of above, the output information are below,
1. Annual sales, profit, production goals
2. Annual resource, investment, outsourcing plan to achieve the goals
3. Project build strategy draft
4. Project milestones draft
These output information will be input to the Annual Plan.
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