• Production Environments
• Supply Chain - External
• Supply Chain - Internal
• Role of Materials Management
• Planning & Control System
• Evolution from MRP to ERP

2) Demand Management

• Demand Management Processes
• Forecasting
• Forecasting Techniques

3) Master Planning

• Master Planning Overview
• Master Production Schedule
• Master Scheduling and Sales

4) Material Requirements     Planning (MRP)

• Material Requirements Planning Overview
• Bill of Material and Planning Bill
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Logic

5) Capacity Management and Production Activity Control

• Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)
• Scheduling
• Implementation
• Control

6) Inventory Management

• Introduction to Inventory
• Objectives
• Inventory Costs and Item Costs
• Carrying Costs
• Order Quantities and Order Point
• ABC Classification
• Auditing Inventory Records

7) Purchasing

• Purchasing Activities

8) Physical Distribution

• Distribution Inventory

9) Lean
Lean and The House of Toyota

10) Theory of Constraints (TOC)

• Drum-Buffer-Rope