Question

You are newly promoted to Plant Manager of a brand-new production site in California. Your

first duty, as requested by your President, is to provide a planning overview for her review within

a month that will give her the assurance that you understand how to manage the new plant.

Required:

Outline the types of planning structure(s) that you will provide to your President along with

general details of the planning. WRITE THIS AS A PROPOSAL NOTE TO YOUR

PRESIDENT.

Answer 1

Answer)

Respected President,

I have outlined the types of planning structure which I will implement for the smooth functioning of the plant and also for your assurance in the coming review. The planning structures are as such -

1-) The first one is the operational planning- The plan to carry out the basic Operations in Production. This planning structure will tell us for how many hours the machine will run , when will the maintenance happen , what is the assembly line rate , is the supply chain efficient or not etc. This will include all the Operational managers, team leaders, workers etc. This planning Structure will be divided into two parts 1-) Single use.2) Ongoing use.

Single time will be when their is a special day and the Production required is more, so Operations will have to be fastracked and what is the allocated budget and requirements for extra demand fulfillment.

Ongoing use is the plan which is for a longer period of time and does not require much changes. For example - policies and procedures which the staff follows on a regular basis.

2-) The second one is the Tactical planning- This is basically to see how things are working at the lowest level and whether everything is working smooth or not. This is basically done to meet the short term goals and to have a sustainable growth. This is the plan to how see whether any particular changes are needed or any Resources are deficient.

3-) The third is the strategical planning structure - This strategy is basically the vision of the plant that what does the manufacturing plant wants to achieve over the next 5 to 10 years and to achieve this goal what processes have already started like innovative machines, quality enhancement, shorter time in profuction etc.

It took some research to answer the questions If you can help me with a upvote I would really appreciate it.

Thank you.