OPS 350 Week 3 Learning Team: Planning and Controlling in the Manufacturing Sector

Choose a manufacturing organization for this assignment with which your Learning Team is familiar.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which the team includes the following points:

• Differentiate at least two or three key elements for each of the four primary forecasting techniques and how they apply to your chosen organization.

• Analyze the impact of production plans, master production schedules, rough-cut capacity planning, workforce size, and carrying inventory as they relate to budgets for your chosen organization.

• Compare and contrast how material requirements planning usage would be different for this organization and one of the opposite types of organizations, depending on whether the organization the team has selected is a manufacturing or service organization.

• Compare and contrast the use of material requirements planning system concepts for the chosen organization.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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