Production Planning Department's Task

 Production planning is the  most important department in apparels industry. Production planning is the controlling aspect of apparels industry. It  involves everything & every task in the process to execution the delivery of finished goods within time frame. Planning department plan every style to execution the order within deadline. Without time frame garment cannot sustain so garment industry must follow every task by proper time scheduling. Every order has a delivery date & production plan department follow production plan on the base of delivery date. They know when fabric & accessories in-house in factory will.  Some of fabric & trims come from Local & internationally .That's why, they plan both option on the base of delivery date. A buyer can judgment by shipment percentage & where the manufacturer current position? So production planning department should follow some of the important tasks in the following.

1. Factory Capacity planning.
2.  TNA (Time & Action)
3. Work Scheduling.
4. Pre-production meeting.
5. Monthly Order Allocation.
6. Budget Man power & M/C allocation.
7. Execution Of every tasks.
8. Materials planning & In-house follow up.
9. On time delivery.

 

1. Factory Capacity planning: Production planning department make factory production capacity of a factory because capacity determined need order or not. If order capacity is full whole the year then do not take over capacity order because it is needed over cost to complete extra capacity order. Besides, if capacity order is not full then take more order to fill the capacity otherwise factory will be loser by financing. Production planning department should be inform forecast capacity order to merchandisers & management so they can inform to buyer for order.
2. TNA (Time & Action): Planning department should follow every style as per schedule. Every order has own fixed time frame  & meet on time delivery. Every style should follow product development to shipment. It is job task for planning department otherwise they will fail to  meet delivery as per plan schedule. So, Planning department take action very style follow up within fixed time & Action calendar.

 

3. Work Scheduling: Production planning department take decision when a style input into sewing  line. On that schedule they will cheek fabric & trims with store department & Merchandising department. If get on time all materials in-house that time they can input into line. on the other hand if not get  all materials on time they can change line plan to reduce the cost.

 

4. Pre-production meeting: Production planning department cheek particular style fabric & trims in-house status with store & merchandising department. If all items & approval is done then they co-operation with all related department like as Merchandising, Production, store, cutting, Finishing, quality & buyer representative to make clear understanding for particular style for production. Before attend PP meeting they can cheek all approval, production file, trim card & ready size set/initial.

 

5. Monthly Order Allocation: Planning department does line wise allocation for every style. When got any order from customer they must allocation line plan. Without line plan its difficult to ship an order on time. So  monthly order allocation is very important for planning department.

 

6. Budget Man power & M/C allocation: Production planning department take decision how many operators need to complete for particular style to output. They can take decision line layout for a particular style according to achieve planned pcs . And they also take decision how many machine need to operate the line. SO, they can take effective decision for productivity for particular style.

 

7. Execution of tasks: Planning department should be execution every task for effective production planning. Without effective execution it scan not possible  smooth production. So they should execution every style planning order placement to shipment.

 

8. Materials planning & In-house: Planning department must follow up the fabric & Accessories follow up with store & merchandising department so they can pre-plan to effective line planning date.

 

9. On time delivery: Production planning department must follow shipment date of a garments. If not maintain the garments shipment on time it will be loser planning & fall down of a company. So, every style maintain meet the garments delivery date. So, they can take effective decision for on time delivery.