Elaboration of a production planning system for a snack manufacturing company

Abstract

A Production Planning System was made for a snacks’ production Company by the development of a MRP system in order to increase the present production and to meet the demand. The methodology used was Material Requirement Planning (MRP) that basically consists in a logic system able to manage and control material requirement planning based on a number of pieces, components and material needed for manufacturing, in other words, it is a production planning system. The outcome of the Project has been an application with MRP features, with complements such as line balance, purchasing Budget of raw materials, among other things. The application relies on protection of information and backup by the same. The executable application of MRP system has contributed to reduce 50% the production breach at the company, as well as reducing waste in a 40%, idle time in a 50% and raw material costs in a 25%, achieving the stated goal.