Production management

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The production management ( English operations management is) a company management task and part of the production economy . It is an important component of corporate management in manufacturing companies and is divided into operational, tactical and strategic production management.

Production management

It includes the planning , organization , implementation and control of industrial value creation and industrial service production processes . The processes of decision-making (planning) and enforcement ( steering and control) are in the foreground. The term “industrial” means less “in industry” than “using industrial methods”.

Main tasks of production management

One of the main tasks of production management is production planning and control (PPS). Production management also includes the controlling of all manufacturing and assembly processes in order to minimize logistics costs and increase logistical efficiency.

The subject of production planning is the design of the general content and the individual processes of production and assembly with regard to deadlines, capacities and quantities. The production control regulates the actual sequence of activities during order processing. The aim is to implement the planning specifications as precisely as possible and to achieve the targeted logistical targets. Production controlling monitors deviations between the planned specifications and the actual state and, if necessary, initiates measures to ensure the most efficient production possible.

Production management as a scientific discipline

In the context of the development of business administration from an object-oriented science to an interdisciplinary real science of the management of social institutions, production management and industrial management are growing together to form a new discipline: production management. Production management thus represents one of the three main organizational functions alongside marketing management and financial management . Under the premise of the definition of organization as target-oriented systems of action with interpersonal division of labor , every organization has a production.

Scientific management , situational approaches , decision- oriented approaches , system-oriented approaches (picture) and, in the meantime, evolutionary management were used as essential approaches .

With regard to the meaning, the effects and the period, a distinction is made between three levels:

  • The strategic production management deals with the long-term alignment of the goals, the production and the production system of a company. This includes the creation and maintenance of efficient and competitive production capacities and the definition of manufacturing standards.
  • the tactical production management is concerned with the medium-term implementation of the strategic decisions. This includes the determination of the production technology as well as the adaptation of the production structures and work organization to the changing processes and products, taking legal requirements and collective agreements into account.
  • the operative production management deals with the short-term planning and preparation of all measures necessary for the provision of services to meet customer orders. This includes u. a. the creation of the production program and the commissioning of our own production and suppliers. However, it is not responsible for the physical execution of services that are assigned to work preparation, production control and logistics.

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  1. ↑ After: E. Zahn, U. Schmid: Production Management I: Basics and operational production management. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-8252-8126-7 , p. 7
  2. ↑ Rolf Grap: Production and Procurement: A Practice-Oriented Introduction . Vahlen, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-8006-2321-1 , p. 6.
  3. ↑ Find out about production management, especially PPS. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Heizer, Jay; Render, Barry: Operations Management. 8th Ed. Upper Saddle River (NJ): Prentice Hall, 2006 ( ISBN 0-13-185755-X ). P. 4.
  5. ↑ Frese, Erich: Fundamentals of the organization: Concept - principles - structures. 9th edition Gabler, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 978-3-409-12681-6 , pp. 5f.
  6. ↑ G. Gäpfel: Production planning and control In: Kern: Manual dictionary of production management. 1996, col. 1391-1393.
  7. ^ W. Herlyn: PPS in automobile construction . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-41370-2 , pp. 16-18.