Reliable planning, smoothing, Heijunka

Reliable planning, smoothing, Heijunka is set of planning principles and tools reducing unavenness. It is aimed at synchronic, smooth, sustainable process flow, based on pull principles.

Objectives

• Pull principles in planning

• Basic of reliable production planning

       - Heijunka / Leveling / Smoothing

• Desired achievables

       1.) High delivery capability
       2.) Delivery time, adherence to schedules
       3.) High material availability
       4.) Low inventory within supply chain
       5.) Reliable production

Content

• Program planning: forecast and preliminary planning.
• Sales&Operations Planning : planning of future requirements with available capacities and  min inventory.
• Rolling Forecast: a tool for an effective update of monthly sales , production and also capacities and resources.
• Procurement planning : rolling material forecast build on rolling forecast updating supply takt, lot sizes, packaging and minimizing  inventory.
• Heijunka as tool for synchronization and prioritization of the material  flow to prevent queues and downtimes.