Propuesta para el establecimiento de mejoras en el proceso de planeación y programación de la producción de granola especial 500 g en una empresa de manufactura de alimentos

Abstract

The objective of this study is to establish improvements for the process of planning and programming the production of special granola 500 g, in a food processing company, considering the prevailing importance of this topic in the administration of production for manufacturing companies in general, so it will be very useful to dispense this valuable source of information, for the development of convenient strategies. Based on the scientific methodology, applied and empirical research was developed through deduction. Primary and secondary sources of information combined with specific data collection techniques were available, which allowed addressing the issue, the context of the company and the consequent methodological approaches that provide an appropriate solution to the problem. The current situation of production planning and programming was documented, improvements were defined based on criteria of optimization of resources and factory productivity and the application was obtained for the 12 periods of the year 2022, the forecast of demand, planning of capacity, aggregate planning, production scheduling, and material requirement planning. Consequently, schemes of each stage of the process were established, indicating the steps, with a single scope to the 500 g special granola item, to make it useful as a source of information