Production Planning & Control in Apparel Manufacturing: The Beginner's Guide

The idea of writing this ebook came to my mind when one apparel business owner requested me to share a book on production planning and control related to apparel manufacturing. I had prepared a document for him covering production planning and control topics and useful tools. Later, I converted the document into a complete book by adding more content and PPC tools. This way the PPC book is written.

Production planning is the key component for success in any manufacturing business. Especially in the manufacturing sector, production planning, and control play an important role in meeting an organization’s goal in delivering goods on time. When it comes to garment manufacturing, as it is mostly an unorganized sector, company management does not care much about the production planning part. As a result, PPC department is missing in many of the garment manufacturing companies.

On the other hand, this is also true that like industrial engineering, GMT, and merchandising subjects there are no formal courses in production planning and control. Factories don’t have any place to hire production planning graduates. So planners learn everything related to PPC tasks and activities by doing the jobs and grows.

This is a knowledge and resource book in production planning and control areas.

In a nutshell, in this book, I have explained production planning procedures, PPC activities, and PPC tools that I used to use in practice. I will walk you through all the relevant knowledge required in planning your production activities and controlling the plan efficiently.

This book is useful for apparel industry professionals including

• Production planners
• Production managers
• Merchandisers
• Industrial engineers and
• Apparel production students

Things you learn from this book

You might be thinking of what all things I have covered in this book. Here is the list of contents of this book.

1. The Concept of Production Planning and Control
2. PPC Department and Its Activities
3. Production Planning & Control Procedure
4. Production Planning Tools & Their Application
5. Production Control
6. Factory Capacity and Resources Analysis
7. Line Planning
8. Pre-Production Meeting
9. Line Balancing
10. Critical Path Method (CPM)
11. Throughput Time Calculation
12. Challenges in Production Planning and Control
13. Organization Skills
14. Problem Solving Tools
15. Formats and Templates
16. Tips and Tricks on PPC
17. Glossary
18. Recommended Books

Already working in the PPC department? Enhance your knowledge. Make a purchase and learn production planning and control.

In case you don’t need to learn PPC, pass this information to your friends who are looking for a book and resources learning production planning in garment manufacturing.

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