Production Control (GATE PI) — GATE Production and Industrial Enginee…
Production Control: Forecasting techniques – causal and time series models, moving average, exponential smoothing, trend and seasonality; Aggregate production planning; Master production scheduling; MRP, MRP-II and ERP; Routing, scheduling and priority dispatching; Push and pull production systems, concepts of lean and agile manufacturing systems; Logistics, distribution, and supply chain management; Inventory – functions, costs, classifications, deterministic inventory models, quantity discount; Perpetual and periodic inventory control systems.
- Exam: GATE Production and Industrial Engineering (PI)
- Section: Operations research and Operations management