Conclusion on Capacity and Scheduling Under Process and Supply Chain

            In a nutshell, a supply chain can be described as a relationships’ set among manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, and distributors that facilitates the raw materials’ transformation into finished products. A scheduling in supply chain design involves decision making regarding the available resources or capacity allocation such as space, labor, and equipment to activities, jobs, customers or tasks over time. There are three major capacity strategies discussed in this paper within manufacturing and production management and supply chain optimization i.e. Match Capacity Strategy, Lag Capacity Strategy, and Lead Capacity Strategy. Furthermore, capacity planning to optimize supply chain is also discussed in the paper i.e. Advantage of Scale, Adaptability, and Make vs. Buy. Last but not least, process supply chain scheduling is an important factor that can be streamlined and optimized with a powerful replenishment planning functionality, production scheduling, and procurement schedules. The highly accurate ATP (Available-To-Promise) capabilities are provided by the solution by synthesizing production schedules, inventory, forecasts, and orders so that availability for any moment could be computed in the future. It is recommended that the businesses should be focusing on processes that are able to simultaneously address various functions, and make it sure that the plans are coordinated between concerned business departments so that duplication of efforts could be minimized and conflicting objectives could be avoided.

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