Master Scheduling. Maximize Business Performance.
Expedited orders, excess inventory, missed customer commitments, stressed planners, and constant reactive decision-making. Consequences ripple across your business when master planning and scheduling break down. Our course equips your team with the practical skills and proven methodologies to bring order to complexity. Drawing on decades of experience helping organizations achieve world-class planning performance, our experts show you how to build schedules that are realistic, responsive, and fully aligned with business objectives.
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Master Planning and Scheduling
When demand changes, does your operation adapt or descend into chaos? Complete this course, and you’ll feel confident in managing change and maintaining stability with master scheduling and planning based on cost, quality, proximity to customer base, and regional market penetration initiatives.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Incorporate Master Plans and Schedules Into IBP
Go beyond scheduling mechanics to understand how master planning connects strategy with execution. Gather practical techniques you can immediately apply to improve stability, responsiveness, and cross-functional alignment.
Master planning isn’t one-size-fits-all. Master how to develop effective schedules across make-to-stock, make-to-order, and engineer-to-order environments while understanding the unique tradeoffs each requires. Gain practical frameworks for creating schedules that support customer expectations without sacrificing operational stability.
A master schedule should never operate in isolation. Discover how to integrate demand planning, material requirements planning, production scheduling, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) into one connected process. Identify the cross-functional behaviors to eliminate silos and align everyone on the same priorities.
The best schedule is one your organization can actually execute. Learn how to evaluate available resources, identify capacity constraints, and validate production plans before they create downstream problems. Move forward with techniques to reduce surprises and make more confident planning decisions.
Supply disruptions, customer demand swings, and unexpected events are inevitable. Study how master scheduling supports Integrated Tactical Planning by providing a structured approach to managing short-term volatility while protecting long-term business objectives and maintaining schedule stability.
WHO BENEFITS
Improvement Starts With Education
Whether you're creating the master schedule, relying on it to make decisions, or trying to improve how your organization plans, this course is ideal if:
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Your shop floor goes into firefighting mode every time demand changes
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Buyers are constantly expediting orders or chasing late materials
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Your ERP system exists, but your real planning still happens in spreadsheets
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Production schedules frequently change, creating instability and confusion
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Inventory is too high in some areas and too low in others
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You struggle to balance customer commitments with available capacity
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Your demand, supply, and production plans don't align across functions
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Your organization has invested in planning technology but isn't seeing the expected return
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You need a practical understanding of how master scheduling fits into Integrated Business Planning
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. Successful planning should connect multiple functions of the enterprise, including demand, supply, product portfolio, and financials. The course is for master schedulers, as well as anyone who communicates with the planning function, including professionals in materials, engineering, finance, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and customer service.
None. The course can help build a process or fine-tune an existing one. Some course attendees arrive before their organization has implemented any formal process, and others may be looking to address a process that has drifted or stopped working over time.
Yes. This course is designed so that the technology your company has already invested in can be re-configured to support best practices and achieve the expected return.
This course specifically touches on key behaviors needed from leadership to those on the shop floor. It will address aggregate master planning, based on strategic objectives like cost, quality, and market penetration, as well as factory-level scheduling driving day-to-day shop floor activities and material requirements.
You will learn techniques for make-to-stock, make-to-order, and engineer-to-order environments. You will also walk away from the course with rough-cut capacity planning methods to ensure schedules are realistic.
The course instructors have practical experience leading planning organizations before joining Oliver Wight. Our Business Advisors understand how your master planning and scheduling integrates with your organization’s broader business plans.