Waiting until you've got orders to plan your production can lead to serious problems that can hamper your ability to make product, strain your finances or lose you customers. Proactive production ...

Manufacturing businesses use production planning to determine the number of items they can produce during a specific period, balanced against the orders or demand for their products. The planning ...

As Hollywood contemplates the risks and uncertainties around going back into production in the coming months after coronavirus-imposed shutdowns, strategies for scaled-back sets are beginning to ...

Material requirements planning (MRP) is a computer-based inventory management system designed to assist production managers in scheduling and placing orders for items of dependent demand. Dependent ...

Machine learning has been successfully applied to demand planning, but leading suppliers of supply chain planning are beginning to work on using machine learning to improve production planning. But ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Subaru's parent -- Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. -- no longer expects to start building cars in China as part of a five-year growth plan, forcing the automaker to lower its annual ...