Lecture 46 : Capacity Planning

[Music] [Music] hello dear friends welcome back to nptl online course on Logistics and supply chain management so today we are going to discuss another very important concept which is capacity planning right so usually we when we talk about production operation management we'll talk about how we can manage the capacity within the production floor so

that the you know we can utilize uh we can ensure the optimal utilization of the resources in terms of space in terms of raw material in terms of manpa in terms of machines whatever resources we are using right so how we can Ure Ure the maximum utilization of those resources so that the that capacity can

be you know optimally utilized as per the demand from coming from the customer so uh under this session we'll discuss about how we can measure the capacity and uh when we talk about how efficiently and how how much we are utilizing the available space or available resources right and we'll talk about the types of capacity planning and

then planning process and we'll see how we can evaluate uh different Alternatives capacity Alternatives when we talk about how we can manage short-term long-term medium-term capacity right and uh we'll end this with very small case study by using uh Break Even analysis how we can use that break even analysis to manage the

capacity right so a cap capacity planning process involves determining how much production capacity is required to meet the changing demand for the products right so the point here is whatever we are delivering in the market in terms of product or Services the demand for that product or Services is not continuous right sometime it is