Production Planning and Control Glossary

A

• ABC Classification in Production Planning and Control
• Acceptance sampling in Production Planning and Control
• Activity Chart in Production Planning and Control
• Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) in Production Planning and Control
• Aggregate capacity planning in Production Planning and Control
• Aggregate planning in Production Planning and Control
• Aggregate production (output) planning in Production Planning and Control
• Agile manufacturing in Production Planning and Control
• Assembly line in Production Planning and Control
• Automated guided vehicles systems in Production Planning and Control
• Automated storage/retrieval systems in Production Planning and Control

B

• Backflush costing in Production Planning and Control
• Backorders in Production Planning and Control
• Backward Scheduling in Production Planning and Control
• Batch production in Production Planning and Control
• Bill of Material in Production Planning and Control
• Bill of materials in Production Planning and Control
• Bottleneck in Production Planning and Control
• Bottleneck Operation in Production Planning and Control
• Break-Even Analysis in Production Planning and Control
• Break-Even-Point in Production Planning and Control
• Breakdown (reactive) maintenance in Production Planning and Control

C

• Capacity in Production Planning and Control
• Capacity planning in Production Planning and Control
• Capacity requirement planning (CRP) in Production Planning and Control
• Capacity requirement planning in Production Planning and Control
• Capacity utilization in Production Planning and Control
• Carrying (holding) Costs in Production Planning and Control
• Cellular manufacturing in Production Planning and Control
• Changeover time in Production Planning and Control
• Combination layout in Production Planning and Control
• Computer integrated manufacturing in Production Planning and Control
• Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) in Production Planning and Control
• Constraint management in Production Planning and Control
• Continuous improvement in Production Planning and Control
• Continuous production in Production Planning and Control
• Control chart in Production Planning and Control
• Controlling in Production Planning and Control
• Cost accounting in Production Planning and Control
• Cost of goods sold (COGS) in Production Planning and Control
• Cost-benefit analysis in Production Planning and Control
• Critical path method (CPM) in Production Planning and Control
• Cycle time in Production Planning and Control

D

• Demand forecasting in Production Planning and Control
• Demand management in Production Planning and Control
• Discrete manufacturing in Production Planning and Control
• Dispatching in Production Planning and Control

E

• Engineering change order (ECO) in Production Planning and Control
• Enterprise asset management (EAM) in Production Planning and Control
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) in Production Planning and Control
• Ergonomics (Human engineering) in Production Planning and Control

F

• Facility layout in Production Planning and Control
• Factory building in Production Planning and Control
• Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) in Production Planning and Control
• Finite capacity scheduling (FCS) in Production Planning and Control
• Fixed position layout in Production Planning and Control
• Flow chart in Production Planning and Control
• Flow diagram in Production Planning and Control
• Flow process chart in Production Planning and Control
• Forecast accuracy in Production Planning and Control

G

• Gantt chart in Production Planning and Control
• Graphical planning method (GPM) in Production Planning and Control

H

• Human factors engineering in Production Planning and Control

I

• Inventory control in Production Planning and Control
• Inventory turnover in Production Planning and Control

J

• Job costing in Production Planning and Control
• Job shop scheduling in Production Planning and Control
• Just-in-time (JIT) in Production Planning and Control

K

• Kaizen in Production Planning and Control
• Kanban in Production Planning and Control

L

• Lead time in Production Planning and Control
• Line balancing in Production Planning and Control
• Line of balance (LOB) in Production Planning and Control
• Load leveling in Production Planning and Control
• Lot sizing in Production Planning and Control

M

• Machine loading in Production Planning and Control
• Maintenance scheduling in Production Planning and Control
• Make-to-order (MTO) in Production Planning and Control
• Make-to-stock (MTS) in Production Planning and Control
• Manufacturing execution system (MES) in Production Planning and Control
• Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) in Production Planning and Control
• Master production schedule (MPS) in Production Planning and Control
• Material handling. in Production Planning and Control
• Material requirements planning (MRP) in Production Planning and Control
• Mixed-model production in Production Planning and Control

O

• Operations management in Production Planning and Control
• Order release in Production Planning and Control
• Outsource in Production Planning and Control
• Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) in Production Planning and Control

P

• Performance metrics in Production Planning and Control
• Planned maintenance in Production Planning and Control
• Planning horizon in Production Planning and Control
• Preventive maintenance in Production Planning and Control
• Process control in Production Planning and Control
• Production control in Production Planning and Control
• Production efficiency in Production Planning and Control
• Production lead time in Production Planning and Control
• Production planning in Production Planning and Control
• Production rate in Production Planning and Control
• Production variance in Production Planning and Control
• Pull manufacturing in Production Planning and Control
• Pull system in Production Planning and Control
• Push system in Production Planning and Control

Q

• Quality assurance in Production Planning and Control
• Quality control in Production Planning and Control
• Quality function deployment (QFD) in Production Planning and Control
• Queue in Production Planning and Control

R

• Raw material inventory in Production Planning and Control
• Receiving inspection in Production Planning and Control
• Reorder point in Production Planning and Control

S

• Safety stock in Production Planning and Control
• Schedule in Production Planning and Control
• Scrap rate in Production Planning and Control
• Sequencing in Production Planning and Control
• Service level in Production Planning and Control
• Setup time in Production Planning and Control
• Shop floor control in Production Planning and Control
• Six Sigma in Production Planning and Control
• Standard deviation in Production Planning and Control
• Standard operating procedure (SOP) in Production Planning and Control
• Statistical process control (SPC) in Production Planning and Control
• Statistical quality control in Production Planning and Control
• Subcontracting in Production Planning and Control
• Supplier evaluation in Production Planning and Control
• Supply chain management (SCM) in Production Planning and Control
• Supply planning in Production Planning and Control

T

• Time series analysis in Production Planning and Control
• Total productive maintenance (TPM) in Production Planning and Control
• Total quality management (TQM) in Production Planning and Control

V

• Value stream mapping in Production Planning and Control
• Vendor managed inventory (VMI) in Production Planning and Control

W

• Work center in Production Planning and Control
• Work order in Production Planning and Control
• Work-in-progress inventory. in Production Planning and Control

Y

• Yield. in Production Planning and Control