Production Planning for Management Consultants & Analysts

Production Planning for Management Consultants & Analysts, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.55, with 83 lectures, based on 575 reviews, and has 4422 subscribers.

You will learn about Analyze the production plans in Excel Calculate the optimal production batches in Excel How to do simulations in Excel How to do scenario analysis in Excel Understand the role of Production Planning Optimize the Production Planning during Management Consulting Projects This course is ideal for individuals who are Management Consultants or Business Analysts or Financial Controllers or Analysts working in Supply Chain Departments or Analysts working in Production Departments or Analysts working in Production Planning Units It is particularly useful for Management Consultants or Business Analysts or Financial Controllers or Analysts working in Supply Chain Departments or Analysts working in Production Departments or Analysts working in Production Planning Units.

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Title: Production Planning for Management Consultants & Analysts

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.55

Number of Lectures: 83

Number of Published Lectures: 82

Number of Curriculum Items: 83

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 82

Original Price: $129.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Analyze the production plans in Excel
Calculate the optimal production batches in Excel
How to do simulations in Excel
How to do scenario analysis in Excel
Understand the role of Production Planning
Optimize the Production Planning during Management Consulting Projects

Who Should Attend

Management Consultants
Business Analysts
Financial Controllers
Analysts working in Supply Chain Departments
Analysts working in Production Departments
Analysts working in Production Planning Units

Target Audiences

Management Consultants
Business Analysts
Financial Controllers
Analysts working in Supply Chain Departments
Analysts working in Production Departments
Analysts working in Production Planning Units

What is the aim of this course?

Consulting firms are hired very often to help with Supply Chain and Production. During such projects, you will quite often have to look at the production planning and optimize it. Optimizing production planning will require a good understanding of what drives production capacity, as well as how production can impact the costs in the whole supply chain. In this course, I will teach how to perform fast and efficiently different types of analyses related to production planning.

In the course you will learn the following things:

What does the production capacity depend on and how to estimate it
How to find optimal production batches for different products in Excel that will minimize costs in the whole supply chain
How to plan production capacity for the future
How and when to use different methods for production planning

This course is based on my 15 years of experience as a consultant in top consulting firms and as a Board Member responsible for strategy, performance improvement, and turn-arounds in the biggest firms from Retail, FMCG, SMG, B2B, and services sectors that I worked for. I have carried out or supervised over 90 different performance improvement projects in different industries that generated a total of 2 billion in additional EBITDA. On the basis of what you will find in this course, I have trained in person over 100 consultants, business analysts, and managers who now are Partners in PE and VC funds, Investment Directors and Business Analysts in PE and VC, Operational Directors, COO, CRO, CEO, Directors in Consulting Companies, Board Members, etc. On top of that my courses on Udemy were already taken by more than 224 000 students including people working in EY, Walmart, Booz Allen Hamilton, Adidas, Naspers, Alvarez & Marsal, PwC, Dell, Walgreens, Orange, and many others.

I teach through case studies, so you will have a lot of lectures showing examples of analyses, and tools that we use. To every lecture, you will find attached (in additional resources) the Excels as well as additional presentations, resources, and materials shown in the lectures so as a part of this course you will also get a library of ready-made analyses that can, with certain modification, be applied by you or your team in your work.

Why have I decided to create this course?

Production planning is very difficult for most management consultants. You not only have to master more advanced techniques, but you also have to have a good understanding of the production processes. Most firms, don’t give you the full toolbox that you may need. This may lead to huge frustration during consulting projects and a lot of inefficiencies.

Therefore, I have decided to create this course that will help students understand or refresh the main skills and toolsthat they need during consulting projects devoted to production planning, supply chain, or production improvement. The course will give you the knowledge and insight into real-life case studies that will make your life during a consulting project much easier. Thanks to this course, you will know what and how to do during consulting projects. You will learn how to analyze data and draw conclusions from the analyses. On top of that, you will also master the essential information related to production and supply chain.

To sum it up, I believe that if you want to become a world-class Management Consultant or Business Analyst you have to have a pretty decent understanding of production planning and analyses done during projects devoted to production optimization. That is why, I highly recommend this course to Management Consultants or Business Analysts, especially those that want to concentrate on operations, production, or supply chain. The course will help you become an expert in production planning on the level of McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and other top consulting firms.

In what way will you benefit from this course?

The course is a practical, step-by-step guide loaded with tons of analyses, tricks, and hints that will significantly improve the speed with which one analyzes businesses. There is little theory – mainly examples, a lot of tips from my own experience as well as other notable examples worth mentioning. Our intention is that thanks to the course you will learn:

What does the production capacity depend on and how to estimate it
How to find optimal production batches for different products in Excel that will minimize costs in the whole supply chain
How to plan production capacity for the future
How and when to use different methods for production planning

You can also ask me any question either through the discussion field or by messaging me directly.

How the course is organized?

The course is divided currently into the following sections:

Introduction.We begin with a little intro to the course as well as some general info on how the course is organized.
What does Production Planning do in practice?In the second section, we will look at some essential concepts that we will need to do the production planning. We will devote a lot of attention to removing bottlenecks.
Essential Methods for Production Planning.In this brief section, I will show the main methods used in production planning.
KPIs and goals for Production Planning. In production planning, you have to decide how to organize production so that it is optimal not only from the point of view of production but also from the whole supply chain. That is why, in this section, we will look at KPIs and goals that Production planning concentrates on.
Advanced Methods for Production Planning.In this section, we will look at more advanced methods of finding optimal production batches. They can be very useful in more complicated case studies.
Kanban & Continuous Flow.Production planning roles will differ if you are using Kanban and continuous flow. That is why in this section we will look at those two concepts.
Production Planning in Continuous-Flow.In this section, I will show you how to define the size of kanbans you will be using in the firm.
Capacity management.In the last section, we will discuss how to manage the medium-term and long-term capacity available in your production facilities.

You will be able also to download many additional resources

Useful frameworks and techniques
Analyses shown in the course
Additional resources
Links to additional presentations, articles, and movies
Links to books worth reading

At the end of my course, students will be able to…

Analyze the production plans in Excel
Calculate the optimal production batches in Excel
Do simulations in Excel
Do scenario analysis in Excel
Understand the role of Production Planning

Who should take this course? Who should not?

Management Consultants
Business Analysts
Financial Controllers
Analysts working in Supply Chain Departments
Analysts working in Production Departments
Analysts working in Production Planning Units

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: A little bit about me

Lecture 3: How this course is organized?

Lecture 4: How to deal with Blurry image

Lecture 5: How to reach additional resources

Chapter 2: What Production Planning does in practices

Lecture 1: What Production Planning does in practices – Introduction

Lecture 2: Definition of terms used in Production Planning

Lecture 3: Optimal sequence of production batches

Lecture 4: Bottlenecks & Capacity – Introduction

Lecture 5: Theory of constraints and bottlenecks

Lecture 6: Removing bottlenecks – Content marketing agency – Introduction

Lecture 7: Removing bottlenecks – Content marketing agency – Solution

Lecture 8: Removing bottlenecks – Example from production – Case Introduction

Lecture 9: What the production capacity depends on?

Lecture 10: How to calculate the capacity for the whole month

Lecture 11: Removing bottlenecks – Example from production – Scenarios – Part 1

Lecture 12: Removing bottlenecks – Example from production – Scenarios – Part 2

Lecture 13: Removing bottlenecks – Example from production – Available Data

Lecture 14: Removing bottlenecks – Example from production – Solution

Lecture 15: Removing bottlenecks – Example from production – Graphs

Lecture 16: Critical Chain

Lecture 17: Links to Sales Forecasting & Purchasing Planning

Lecture 18: Production Planning role in different production systems

Lecture 19: Where Production Planning can be in the organization?

Chapter 3: Essential Methods for Production Planning

Lecture 1: Essential Methods for Production Planning – Introduction

Lecture 2: Optimal production batch analysis – FMCG

Lecture 3: 2–stage production planning

Lecture 4: Scenario analysis – Introduction

Lecture 5: Which price formula is the best for my profits – Introduction

Lecture 6: Which price formula is the best for my profits – Solution – TM

Lecture 7: Which price formula is the best for my profits – Solution – Mixed Options

Lecture 8: Production batch estimation for a bakery – Case Introduction

Lecture 9: Production batch estimation for a bakery – Data Available

Lecture 10: Production batch estimation for a bakery – Baking & Forming

Lecture 11: Production batch estimation for a bakery – Dough

Lecture 12: Production batch estimation for a bakery – Summary

Lecture 13: Production batch estimation for a bakery – Modification due to an error

Chapter 4: KPIs and goals for Production Planning

Lecture 1: KPIs and goals for Production Planning – Introduction

Lecture 2: Goals of Production Planning

Lecture 3: Production Planning Value Drivers

Lecture 4: Typical problems in Production Planning

Chapter 5: Advanced Methods for Production Planning

Lecture 1: Advanced Methods for Production Planning – Introduction

Lecture 2: Simulation analysis – Introduction

Lecture 3: What will be the effect of the price increase – Introduction

Lecture 4: What will be the effect of the price increase – Solution – Impact on coffee only

Lecture 5: What will be the effect of the price increase – Solution – full impact

Lecture 6: Juice Producer – Simulation – Introduction

Lecture 7: Juice Producer – Simulation – Tips how to do it

Lecture 8: Juice Producer – Simulation – Solution

Lecture 9: Cheese Production – Case Introduction

Lecture 10: Cheese Production – Cost Calcuations

Lecture 11: Cheese Production – Simulations

Chapter 6: Kanban & Continuous Flow

Lecture 1: Kanban & Continuous Flow – Introduction

Lecture 2: Kanban – Introduction

Lecture 3: Kanban in Excel

Lecture 4: Continuous flow – Introduction

Lecture 5: How NOT to make continuous flow – sandwich factory

Lecture 6: How to make continuous flow – sandwich factory no kanban

Lecture 7: How to make continuous flow – sandwich factory with kanban

Lecture 8: How to make continuous flow – sandwich factory with kanban

Chapter 7: Production Planning in Continuous flow

Lecture 1: Production Planning in Continuous flow – Introduction

Lecture 2: Kanban in Burger Chain – Case Introduction

Lecture 3: Kanban in Burger Chain – Data Available

Lecture 4: Kanban in Burger Chain – Solution

Lecture 5: Kanban in Chair Production with 1 element – Case Introduction

Lecture 6: Kanban in Chair Production with 1 element – Data Available

Lecture 7: Kanban in Chair Production with 1 element – Solution

Lecture 8: Kanban in Chair Production with 2 elements – Case Introduction

Lecture 9: Kanban in Chair Production with 2 elements – How to calculate production batches

Lecture 10: Kanban in Chair Production with 2 elements – Data Available

Lecture 11: Kanban in Chair Production with 2 elements – Optimal Production Batch

Lecture 12: Kanban in Chair Production with 2 elements – Lead Times

Lecture 13: Kanban in Chair Production with 2 elements – Kanban Size

Chapter 8: Capacity management

Lecture 1: Why you need to do capacity management

Lecture 2: How to manage capacity?

Lecture 3: Supplier catchment area

Lecture 4: Customer catchment area

Lecture 5: Catchment area / reach analysis – B2B

Lecture 6: Decision Tree Analysis – Introduction

Lecture 7: Decision Tree Analysis – Solution

Lecture 8: More on Optimizing Production

Chapter 9: Conclusions

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Asen Gyczew
Expert in performance improvement, turnaround and startups

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 1 votes
2 stars: 8 votes
3 stars: 61 votes
4 stars: 192 votes
5 stars: 314 votes

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