The business environment is dramatically changing. Companies today face the
challenge of increasing competition, expanding markets, and rising customer
expectations. This increases the pressure on companies to lower costs in the entire
supply chain, shorten throughput times, reduce inventories, expand product choice,
provide more reliable delivery dates, better customer service, improve quality, and
efficiently coordinate global demand, supply and production. Process improvement
and the need for it move fast in today’s competitive markets. Methodologies used in
business for advancement and remaining competitive are enterprise resource planning
and lean.
This study was concerned with the perceived production planning control problems at
Cataler South Africa. Cataler South Africa manufactures catalytic converters for the
Toyota market. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the inventory system,
procurement of raw materials, to determine the impact of the need to place urgent
orders of raw material, to establish an effective production planning schedule and to
ensure timeous delivery of products to customer.
The study employed an exploratory research using qualitative methods to analyse the
responses of 15 participants at senior level.
Several initiatives were identified which would enable the organisation to pursue an
effective production planning system. Strategic recommendations were made for the
production control department.
In terms of implementation, it was recommended that Cataler South Africa commence
with inventory policy objectives, supplier and customer delivery monitoring and
visualisation, training and communication at all levels to redesign the production
control processes and to change the way the department conducts its daily duties. / Thesis (MBA)-Unversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/10734 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Cosme, Holanda de Faria. |
| Contributors | Bozas, Alec. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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