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Materials Management & Manufacturing Planning

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Materials Management & Manufacturing PlanningCOURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to the Materials Management & Manufacturing Planning course. This program will equip you with the skills and knowledge to understand what materials management is, how manufacturing environments operate, and how organisations integrate planning, production, and supply chain processes to deliver reliable, cost effective outcomes. You will explore the operating environment in which manufacturing takes place, the characteristics

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Materials Management & Manufacturing Planning course. This program will equip you with the skills and knowledge to understand what materials management is, how manufacturing environments operate, and how organisations integrate planning, production, and supply chain processes to deliver reliable, cost-effective outcomes. You will explore the operating environment in which manufacturing takes place, the characteristics customers expect in the products and services they buy, and how order qualifiers and order winners influence competitive advantage. This course also examines how manufacturing strategy, delivery lead times, and essential supply chain factors shape organisational performance in fast-moving markets.

This course begins by introducing supply chain concepts and common conflicts in traditional systems, helping you understand how operational priorities must be balanced across functions. You will explore the four main objectives a company must pursue to maximise profit, the several ways organisations provide the best customer service possible, how finance aims to keep investment and costs low, and how production must control its operating expenses. This section also defines the objectives of materials management and the importance of controlling work-in-process (WIP) to ensure smooth, predictable material flow.

You will then explore the primary activities involved in moving materials throughout a manufacturing system. This includes understanding the inputs to the manufacturing planning and control (MPC) system, the activities required to transport and manage goods, and the role of supply chain metrics in evaluating efficiency, cost, responsiveness, and reliability. This section also highlights the major production-control challenges organisations face and the necessary steps involved in implementing a performance measurement program that supports improvement.

A further component introduces the manufacturing planning and control system, including its five major levels and the functions performed within each stage. You will examine the strategic business plan, the production plan, and the concerns of production management as it balances capacity, demand, cost, and customer expectations. You will explore the master production schedule, the material requirements plan, and the essential roles of purchasing and production activity control. This section also covers capacity management, sales and operations planning, manufacturing resource planning, and enterprise resource planning, showing how these systems support coordinated decision-making.

Another learning area focuses on developing the production plan, starting with how to establish product groups and recognise the characteristics of production planning problems. You will explore the three basic strategies used when creating a production plan—level production, chase demand, and hybrid approaches—and how these strategies differ between make-to-stock and make-to-order environments. This section also explains the information needed to create an effective production plan and how forecasting, capacity data, inventory levels, and customer requirements influence planning decisions.

The course will also guide you through make-to-stock and make-to-order planning methods. You will explore how to develop a make-to-stock production plan, the information required for planning, and how this plan determines production quantities to meet projected demand. You will then examine how to develop a make-to-order production plan, the information needed to support customised production scheduling, and the general procedure for creating a level production plan in environments where goods are produced only after orders are received.

A further learning component focuses on resource planning, examining how organisations determine the capacity, labour, equipment, and materials needed to meet business objectives. You will explore how resource planning supports both make-to-stock and make-to-order production strategies, and how effective resource planning ensures the manufacturing system can respond to variations in demand, product mix, or operational constraints.

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand materials management principles, analyse manufacturing environments, interpret supply chain metrics, develop production plans, apply planning tools across different production strategies, and align manufacturing decisions with organisational goals for efficiency, customer service, and profitability.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

  • What is materials management?
  • The operating environment
  • Some of the characteristics and selection customers expect in the products and services they buy
  • The order qualifiers and order winners
  • The manufacturing strategy
  • The delivery lead time
  • The important factors in supply chains
  • The supply chain concepts
  • The conflicts in traditional systems
  • The four main objectives a company must have to get the most profit
  • The several ways of providing the best customer service possible
  • How finance must keep investment and costs low?
  • How production must keep its operating costs as low as possible
  • The objectives of materials management
  • The work-in-process (WIP)
  • The primary activities of the flow of materials
  • The inputs to the manufacturing planning and control system
  • The activities involved in moving goods
  • Supply chain metrics and what it gives us?
  • The major challenges in production control
  • The necessary steps in implementing a performance measurement program
  • The production planning system
  • The manufacturing planning and control system
  • The five major levels in the manufacturing planning and control (MPC) system
  • The strategic business plan
  • The production plan
  • What production management is concerned about?
  • The master production schedule
  • The material requirements plan
  • Purchasing and production activity control
  • Capacity management
  • Sales and operations planning and benefits
  • Manufacturing resource planning
  • Enterprise resource planning
  • How to make the production plan?
  • How to establish product groups?
  • The characteristics of production planning problems
  • The three basic strategies that can be used in developing a production plan
  • How to develop a make-to-stock production plan?
  • The information needed to make a production plan
  • Level production plan
  • How to develop a make-to-order production plan?
  • The information needed to make a production plan for make-to-order products
  • The general procedure for developing a make to- order level production plan
  • Resource planning
  • What a make-to-stock production plan determines?
  • What a make-to-order production plan determines?

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.

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Lornwal
Grantham, US
★★★★★ 3
About that twist…
Format: Kindle
SPOILER ALERT! The thing about big, improbable twists in stories is that the less time you have to think about them, the better their effect. For fans of the classic TV show The Twilight Zone, it has always been clear that the half-hour shows were far better and far more punchy and memorable than their rather sad hour-long cousins. And a book has far, far more time to contemplate a twist than a TV show. Unfortunately, despite some pointed observations by the author (narcissistic people are pretty much unlikable, cruelty and brutality give power to weak men, abused children very often cling to their abusers), the big, improbable twist in Yesteryear almost completely sinks the story. The twist is the same one that sank M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 movie The Village, and it fares no better here. Yes, people can and do live off the grid. But avoiding every single sign of civilization for years on end? Even if you’re not in a commercial flight path, there are such things as helicopters and small private planes, especially in remote areas. Perhaps people rarely stray onto private land in the wilderness, but once in a while, stray they do. And when that wilderness home was once widely publicized? Excuse me, but people are going to look for it. This is all not to say that Yesteryear was not entertaining - it was. I read it in one sitting. The characters, as unlikable and unreliable as they are, were well drawn. A couple of the children were also quite believable, but the author’s excuse for the rest of the kids being cyphers was that their mother saw them as cyphers as well. Okay, that’s fair, but knowing them better would have enhanced the story for the reader. This is certainly a promising book. It held my attention and was very well-written. But that twist - well, it sank M. Night Shyamalan, too.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2026
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Starseed
Alexandria, US
★★★★★ 4
Good read
Format: Hardcover
This book has been getting a lot of hype, and I can understand why. First, it is a very unique storyline. Very different plot. Second, the main character, Natalie, is totally unlikable. In fact, I would honestly say I loathed her. She has no likeable qualities whatsoever. I guess that is what makes you want to keep reading, to find out what happens to this nasty woman. That said, I admit I was confused at the end. I am still not sure what exactly happened to Natalie, how the situation came about, and how 10 years went by when Natalie seemed to only be telling a few months time. Was she delusional? Did she have a mental breakdown? I wish it was more clear as to what exactly happened.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2026
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JJ
Massapequa, US
★★★★★ 5
What did i spend so much time reading??
Format: Kindle
Spoilers ahead This book makes me angry. A misogynistic fable that holds women as mothers as inherently either deeply flawed or as if some fairy tale perfect mother exists. I found the early parts of the novel quite funny. Thinking this poor woman why do people expect such crazy standards? Also social media influencers somehow we are to take for reality? It is entertaining and that's why we want to spend our time looking at it. It is a fantasy world. Yet that is somehow turned from something comical and poignant dissolving into madness where there can be a 16 year old that can take away your children for what I'm not sure. Filming them? Having nannies? And then again the next bunch for living off the grid? I get that this isn't going for realism. It ultimately became for me this poorly written satire maybe? Obviously what started as comically intriguing for me descended into one totally crazy crazy turn to the darkest of places. I recognize this was supposed to be some sort of cracked fairytale where nearly everyone is evil and/or mental but 30 years for child abuse? This is like a nightmare not a thriller. The book demonstrates a hatred for mothers. Just awful! It made me crave for a totally unrealistic thriller. I came to be entertained and left pissed off.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2026
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The Lewteran
Port Orchard, US
★★★★★ 5
Excellent satire of tradition cult
Format: Kindle
I read this book in two days. I was eager to read it once I read the description in a Facebook post. I am a theologically conservative Christian frustrated with the tradition culture that has co-opted the faith. I see this in my social and social media circles quite a bit, and I was intrigued by a novel that took this movement to task. Furthermore, I truly enjoy well done satire and farce. I have had a hard time finding these works written well in the past, so I was bracing myself to be disappointed. I am thankful to say, I wasn’t. I didn’t expect the novel to go the way it did (and no, I won’t post spoilers), but I literally laughed out loud a several points. Let me compliment the author for one particular point: She doesn’t just blast the “tradwife” movement. Plenty of cultural movements and groups of people have their sins exploited. Rather than shooting a 12-gauge at religious conservatives, she takes a Tommy gun and hits a wide range of systems. I do want to warn squeamish readers about another issue: The novel can be quite graphic at times, explicitly detailing the intimacy struggles with the main couple. It borders on the pornographic side, but not for titillation. It’s meant to show the dysfunction in the supposedly happy couple. There were quite a few humorous moments, such as the protagonist enjoying the sounds of the chickens, only to grow wistful about their impending deaths so she can taste chicken broth. Or the protagonist’s evangelical mother reacting to her son-in-law’s purchase of a yoga mat.  I was a little disappointed in the resolution of the central issue, i.e., the time travel. But overall, the novel was an enjoyable read and worth your time.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2026
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Mayhem and Mood Reads
Cuba, US
★★★★★ 4
What did I just read
Format: Kindle
I’m not sure how to articulate my feelings about this book. It took me a bit to get into it, the story was interesting from the beginning but felt very slow paced to me. That changed about half way in. I don’t know what I was expecting, but that was not it! I did end up enjoying this. It was well written, funny, and shocking.
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