How your organization manages planning and inventories

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In week six you will delve into two key chapters and two closely related subjects:

chapter 11 - Aggregate Planning and Chapter 13 - Inventory Management.

Before attacking this week's discussion forum, you will want to read, make notes from, and thoroughly understand several key concepts:

Aggregate Planning
Supply Chain Management
Master Scheduling
Inventory Management
Demand Forecasting and Lead Times
Economic Order models
Economic Production Quantities
Strategies for managing uneven demand
Tools and/or systems used to control inventory, establish EOQs, and forecast demand
Day-to-day scheduling methods and systems

Once you have a good handle on each of these concepts and how they affect a business, pick any 4 concepts that you want to evaluate where you work. If you are not familiar with planning, supply chain management, inventory management, and order models within your business, find someone who is and gather information as to how your organization manages planning and inventories. If you are in a service related business, how are some of the concepts related to your business?

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