The Role of Optimized Operational Planning in Optimal Production Control Toward Defective Production Reduction

Jamal Ahmed  Hama Kareem

doi:10.25098/4.2.277

Authors

Jamal Ahmed Hama Kareem College of Administration and Economics, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimaniya, Iraq Business Administration Department, Faculty of Business and Financial science, Cihan University-Sulaimaniya, Sulaimaniya, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25098/4.2.277

Keywords:

Optimized operational planning, Optimal production control, Defective Production, Cement factories

Abstract

Any optimized operational planning aims to bring about certain goals, including enhancing optimal production control, but it is frustrating to spend time creating an operational plan for any organization and then it fails. To make the organization’s efforts of optimized operational planning succeed, ways to master the operational planning reliably must be defined. Therefore, the current study tried to investigate the role of the set of ways to master the optimized operational planning toward enhancing optimal production control to achieve effective reduction of defective production, taking cement plants as a case study. Therefore, the quantitative method for data collection was chosen by using a questionnaire survey for sample of 274 respondents. Findings of the study revealed that the ways to master the optimized operational planning, especially the ways of integrated planning, reliable data and prescriptive analytics, assist significantly in enhancing optimal production control toward achieving the effective reduction of defective production. Based on findings, the study recommended that for manufacturing organizations’ management to succeed in enhancing optimal production control, a keen interest must be given towards mastering optimized operational planning, giving them priority as a very vital cost center to effective reduction of defective products.

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