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title: Production Planning
description: Production planning involves organizing resources, scheduling processes, and managing inventory to meet manufacturing demands. Learners will understand how to forecast demand, allocate resources, schedule production runs, and balance capacity constraints to ensure efficient factory operations.
category: engineering
subcategory: industrial-engineering
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/production-planning
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# Production Planning

Production planning involves organizing resources, scheduling processes, and managing inventory to meet manufacturing demands. Learners will understand how to forecast demand, allocate resources, schedule production runs, and balance capacity constraints to ensure efficient factory operations.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 2 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Production Planning and Control

Learn production planning and control techniques with this IIT Kharagpur course. Master scheduling, inventory, and operations management.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://nptel.ac.in/courses/110105062

**Tags:** production-planning, production-control, scheduling, inventory-control, operations-management

## Websites

### 1. IISE - Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

The professional society for industrial and systems engineers, publishing ISE magazine, a body-of-knowledge outline, webinars, and its Problem Solved podcast. Useful for mapping what the discipline covers and which specialisations—supply chain, healthcare systems, ergonomics—exist.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.iise.org/

**Tags:** industrial engineering, systems engineering, professional society, career resources

### 2. industryweek.com

IndustryWeek is a leading publication for manufacturing and industrial engineering, offering news, analysis, and practical guidance on plant operations, lean methods, process improvement, and supply chain optimization. The site features articles, case studies, data insights, webinars, and industry reports to help engineers and managers boost performance.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://industryweek.com

**Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, industrial-engineering

## Books

### 1. Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management

**Author:** Thomas E. Vollmann, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark, F. Robert Jacobs

Standard graduate and practitioner text on manufacturing planning and control systems: demand management, sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, MRP, capacity planning, and shop-floor control. Readers learn how these planning layers fit together across a supply chain.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071121331?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, industrial-engineering

### 2. Production and Operations Analysis

**Author:** Steven Nahmias, Tava Lennon Olsen

Quantitative operations textbook covering forecasting, aggregate planning, inventory models, MRP, scheduling, queuing and supply chain coordination, with worked problems and spreadsheet examples. Readers learn to formulate and solve the core mathematical models behind production planning decisions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1478623063?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, industrial-engineering

### 3. Factory Physics

**Author:** Wallace J. Hopp, Mark L. Spearman

Hopp and Spearman build a science of manufacturing operations from queueing and variability, stating laws such as Little's Law that link throughput, WIP and cycle time. Readers learn why push and pull systems behave as they do and how to diagnose factory performance.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0256247951?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, industrial-engineering

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