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Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling

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  •  Production Planning and Scheduling Training
  •  4 days (2+2), 09:00–16:00
  •  Open to public: Virtual Classroom (Online)
  •  In-house: Closed Session (On-site)
  •  English
  •  Hands-on Optimization Examples
  •  Assessment for in-house training
  •  Certificate of Attendance & Achievement
  •  2,500+ participants, 500+ organizations
  •  Instructor: Dr. İlker Güçlü
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“It was a very enjoyable and full training with detailed explanation and great presentations. Thank you for helping us to see the planning from a broad perspective, thank you for your efforts.”
Burak Kurtis, Planning Specialist, DISERA MEDICAL MATERIALS (2026)
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“It was a visionary training in a fluent language without overwhelming the essence and essence of the subject without going into unnecessary details. It was an effective and efficient training that enabled us to improve the existing systems in our company and how we have tried so far, and how to contribute to our processes.”
Hasan Basri Kara, Demand Planning Manager, Tamek Sagra (2025)
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“Someone joining the training from scratch and someone already prepared on the subject will definitely have a lot to learn.”
Seckin Soganci, Product and System Specialist, Yatsan (2023)

  Orders are delivered late and due-date promises are not kept.

  The warehouse is full, yet production keeps running short of materials.

  The plan changes every day; the shop floor does not trust it.

  Unplanned overtime and subcontracting have become permanent.

  Expedited shipments and air freight have become routine.

  Bottlenecks are noticed only after work piles up.

If more than two sound familiar, the problem is often not individual performance but the planning system itself.

  About the Training Program

  Production planning focuses on balancing deliveries, capacity, inventory and costs.

  Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling covers the entire planning chain, from the production plan to the shop-floor schedule, in 4 days.

  Participants work with Excel-based applications and scheduling exercises every day.

  The training is delivered in two parts of two days each (2+2 days). Daily sessions run from 09:00 to 16:00.

  Days 1-2: master production scheduling (MPS), material planning (MRP, DDMRP), capacity planning (RCCP, CRP) and pull systems.

  Days 3-4: detailed scheduling with Gantt charts, rescheduling, APS, optimization and artificial intelligence applications.

  For in-house trainings, flexibility, a maturity assessment and an action plan can be provided.

  Presentations and all training materials distributed to participants are in English.

  To learn more about production planning, click here.

  To learn more about detailed scheduling, click here.

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  Explain the planning hierarchy (S&OP → MPS → MRP/CRP → detailed scheduling → execution) and the decisions at each level.

  Choose the planning approach suited to the production strategy (MTS/ATO/MTO/ETO) and determine decoupling points.

  Calculate MPS, RCCP, MRP and CRP records, resolve overloaded plans and interpret exception messages.

  Choose among MRP, Kanban, DBR and DDMRP according to the environment.

  Select and apply the appropriate scheduling method in single-machine, parallel-machine, flow shop, job shop and project environments, and reschedule after disruptions.

  Explain the roles of ERP, APS, MES and IIoT systems in planning and the data flow between them.

  Assess their organization's planning maturity and outline a 12–24 month digital planning roadmap.

  Define realistic expectations from artificial intelligence and optimization tools, and set evaluation and governance criteria.

  •   Production Planning and Control
  •   Operations Management
  •   Order and Due Date Management
  •   Factory, Department, Production Line Management
  •   Supply Chain Management
  •   Purchasing Planning
  •   Material & Capacity Planning
  •   IT Management
  •   Subcontractor planning and control
  •   Those seeking a career in production planning

Attending as a team: Teams from planning, production and purchasing who attend together build a shared language.

  Hands-on learning: Every day, Excel-based optimization applications and scheduling exercises are done in teams with realistic scenarios.

  Certification exam: Assessment with questions mapped to the learning outcomes.

  Software independence: No software is promoted. Systems are explained at the class level, using open standards.

  Assessment in in-house training: In in-house trainings, an assessment of your organization's planning is provided, based on participant input collected during the training.

  Training Content

    Day 1:

    Production Planning
    and Order Management

  • Competition, Demand–Supply Balance and the Planning Hierarchy
  • Business Impact of Planning and Loss Calculation
  • Demand, Orders and Master Production Schedule (MPS)
  • Forecast–Plan Relationship and Scenarios
  • Time Fences and Plan Stability
  • Available/Capable-to-Promise (ATP/CTP)
  • Order Pile-Ups and Overloaded Plans
  • Production Strategies (MTS/ATO/MTO/ETO) and Decoupling Points
  • Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), Critical Resources and Performance Tracking
  • Facility Layouts and Their Impact on Planning
  • Planning System Architecture: ERP, APS, MES, IIoT
  • Integration in Planning and Technology Investment Sequence
  • Exercise: Optimizing the Production Plan

    Day 2:

    Material & Capacity Planning
    Pull Systems

  • MRP Logic, Bill of Materials and Explosion
  • Lead Time Offsetting, Safety Stock/Time and Lot-Sizing Rules
  • Net Change, Exception Messages and Pegging
  • Material Planning in Make-to-Order
  • By-Products and Recovery
  • Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP): Infinite and Finite Capacity
  • Capacity Planning by Production Type
  • Theory of Constraints (TOC), Bottlenecks and DBR
  • Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban: MRP or Kanban?
  • Demand-Driven MRP (DDMRP) and Buffer Application
  • Planning in ERP and Data Accuracy: A Health Check
  • Balanced and Level Production Plans (Heijunka)
  • Exercise: Optimizing the Material Plan

    Day 3:

    Detailed Scheduling and Job Sequencing
    Gantt Chart Exercises

  • Scheduling Concepts: Resources, Constraints and Objectives
  • Finite/Infinite, Forward/Backward Scheduling and Gantt Charts
  • Cycle, Waiting and Setup Times; Real-Time Tracking and OEE
  • Shop-Floor Digitalization: MES and IIoT
  • Data Preparation and Data Quality for Scheduling
  • Single-Machine Sequencing: Flow Time, Tardiness and Performance Measures
  • Priority Rules for Sequencing
  • Reducing the Number of Late Jobs and Total Tardiness
  • Reducing Sequence-Dependent Setup Losses
  • Multi-Objective Goals and Comparing Rules
  • Types of Disruptions and Robust Scheduling
  • Rescheduling: Optimum or Stability?
  • Exercises with Gantt Charts for Detailed Scheduling

    Day 4:

    Multi-Resource Detailed Scheduling
    and Advanced Methods

  • Scheduling on Parallel Machines
  • Scheduling Alternative Resources
  • Flow-Type Production: Two-Machine Flow Shop and Sequencing
  • Lot Sizes and Sub-Lots (Transfer Batches)
  • Job Shop Scheduling and a Rescheduling Exercise After Disruptions
  • ETO and Project Production: CPM, Resource-Constrained Projects, Critical Chain
  • Setting Reliable Due Dates
  • APS and Scheduling Engines
  • Heuristics, Mathematical Modeling and Constraint Programming
  • Scheduling with AI and Digital Twins
  • Automation and Decision Governance in Detailed Scheduling
  • Maturity Assessment and Digital Planning Roadmap
  • Exercises with Gantt Charts for Detailed Scheduling

Our trainings are preferred by leading industrial companies in Türkiye.

Over 250+ training sessions delivered with participants from 500+ organizations totaling 2500+ managers and employees.

This course has been delivered as In-house Training for the companies listed below.

Yorglass logo
“I can say that different perspectives and examples have opened our horizons on many issues.”
E**** D****, Supply Chain Planning - Department Supervisor, Yorglass (Production Planning, 2023)
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“During the training, the subjects called Detail Scheduling were extremely sufficient. The examples given and the exercises were also very helpful in learning and reinforcing the subjects. Our instructor gave clear and satisfactory answers to the questions asked.”
Bahadır Güney, Material Planning Specialist, Vitra (Production Planning, 2016)
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“In production planning training, actively making calculations throughout the training keeps the lesson dynamic. The teacher's persuasive and helpful attitude in the face of questions was also effective.”
Aleyna Alanya, Demand Planning Specialist, Panasonic Electric Works (Production Planning, 2023)
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“It was a training in which all theoretical information about Production Planning and Scheduling was explained from start to finish and increased the awareness of the important points in our own process. In this sense, it paved the way for us to focus on critical points and improve our processes.”
Arif Cez, Production Planning and Control Specialist, Ipekkagit (Production Planning, 2010)
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“In today's conditions where competition is increasing, the importance of good planning is increasing. We see the biggest effects of this in terms of timely supply, correct deadlines and minimum stock management, etc. For this reason, it is absolutely necessary to follow the changes and developments in this field in order to make a good planning.”
Aylin Erpak Kurtcu, Production Planning Manager, Abdi Ibrahim Pharmaceuticals (Production Planning, 2011)
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“It is a must-have training for anyone who is engaged in or interested in production planning. Planning allows you to look at it from different windows. It has helped me gain many new ideas in my professional life and career development. I believe that with the training I received while planning production, I will make better analyzes and find more optimum or near-optimal results.”
Emin Bahar, Production Planning Team Leader, TEI-Tusas (Production Planning, 2019)
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“Making production plans and creating schedules is very difficult and time-consuming issues due to many constraints and different purposes. Each new constraint that arises makes this problem more difficult. To create the best schedules and plans suitable for the purpose, taking into account all constraints, in the least time; It is possible by knowing which methods you should use at which point. I can say that this scheduling training I have received is very useful in revealing different methods and gaining different perspectives.”
Hürdoğan Güneş, Production Planning Engineer, Brisa (Production Planning, 2011)
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“It is a training that will definitely benefit especially planning experts and engineers, and where very practical details are presented to beginner engineers/experts with examples and studies.”
Berkay Kılıçkıran, Planning Engineer, ABB Electrical Systems (Production Planning, 2011)
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“It was a good and effective training on planning techniques. Apart from the techniques we will know as theoretical knowledge, we also learned the techniques we will actually use in our business life. A very suitable training for planners.”
Fikriye İnce, Production Planning Chief, Anadolu Cam (Production Planning, 2012)
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“It was a useful and enjoyable training that started from the basic terms and discussed the subject of Production Planning comprehensively, enriched with examples.”
H. Mustafa İnceoğlu, Planning Specialist, E.C.A. (Production Planning, 2021)
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“Planning is a job in which the entire production process is set for granted. It is necessary to do this job by looking at both the long and short term, so that we can foresee the risks, take action and reflect them to production in the most efficient way. This training taught us the systematics of this business, starting from the long term to the shortest term. He also showed us the way to implement it by discussing how to reflect this systematic to the company, taking into account our dynamics. I believe that this training, which is made with clarity, clarity and examples, will be very useful.”
Deniz Yalçın, Pkw Production Manager, ZF Lemforder (Production Planning, 2017)
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“We think that it is an efficient training that reflects the planning processes carried out in an organization from general to specific, develops an industrial engineering perspective on the activities we are carrying out, and informs about an innovative planning approach such as S&OP.”
Firdevs Nergis Keçeci, Enterprise Resource Management Specialist, TAI-Tusaş (Production Planning, 2015)
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“The Production planning and scheduling training expanded our horizons and perspectives. Thank you for sharing.”
B**** K**** Ü****, Production Planning Specialist, Akcoat (Production Planning, 2021)
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“General Planning & Scheduling training in Production is a very useful training with a wide content on new techniques as well as classical techniques of planning. I think that the participation of every planner, regardless of the sector, will add new views to them. In addition to the content of the training, the interest and relevance shown during the training is also quite good. Thank you, Mr. İlker.”
Berkcan Ünsal, Production Management Engineer, Best Trafo (Production Planning, 2014)
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“It is important to attend this training so that you can understand what you need by examining the planning processes in general terms. Since it is an interactive training, you can reach a conclusion by discussing the problems in your process. I think it is a useful training.”
Latif Mutlu Şahan, Factory Director, Hisarlar Makine (Production Planning, 2014)
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“In this period when efficiency and customer expectations have come to the fore, it is an up-to-date training where innovative methods can be introduced for the optimum use of resources.”
Hasan Çolak, Product and Production Materials Planning Manager, Kaleseramik (Production Planning, 2014)
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“Although it has a long history, the recognition and use of S&OP processes in Turkey is not very old. Especially the awareness of domestic corporate companies on this issue is increasing. In the face of such a need, Mr. İlker touches on the process at all points with the S&OP training he organized and gave. Within two days, he makes a presentation that all participants who have no idea or experience about this process can enjoy.”
Barış Çelik, Supply Chain Planning Manager, Kastamonu Entegre (Production Planning, 2018)
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“It is a very important training that reveals the importance of using and managing limited resources correctly in increasingly competitive conditions. We would like to thank all who contributed to the preparation of this program.”
Ersen Gazel, Planning Executive, Samet Molding (Production Planning, 2010)
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“It is a training that should definitely be taken in order to bring general solutions to the problems we encounter while planning, to see all the details we are overwhelmed with and to take precautions, and to improve our planning criteria and bring your company to better quality and economical results.”
Onur Akyürek, Production and Planning Manager, Ukinox (Production Planning, 2016)

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  Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance indicating each day attended.

  Participants who attend the entire course will be eligible to take the certification exam at the end of the training.

  Those scoring above 60% on the certification exam will receive a Certificate of Achievement.

  Those scoring above 90% on the certification exam will receive a Certificate of Outstanding Achievement.

The training modules are delivered by Dr. İlker Guclu, the program's designer and developer.

İlker completed his BSc, MSc and PhD at Bosphorus University, Department of Industrial Engineering.

Since 2003, he has worked in industry-focused training and consulting services, with the last 15+ years focused on supply chain management and optimization.

İlker is married and a father of two.

For the instructor's CV, see here.

Who is this training for?

Production planning, scheduling, material planning, purchasing, production and supply chain professionals and managers, as well as those involved in ERP, APS or MES projects.

How many days is the training and what are the daily hours?

The training is 4 days, split into two blocks (2+2 days). Each day runs from 09:00 to 16:00; including the lunch break and two short breaks per day.

Is the training in person or online?

Open trainings are held as a live virtual classroom. In-house programs can be delivered on-site or in a virtual classroom.

What do I need on my computer?

A computer with Microsoft Excel and permission to run macros.

Is a certificate issued, and how does the exam work?

Yes. A Certificate of Attendance is issued for the days you attend. Participants who attend the entire course take a certification exam; those scoring above 60% receive a Certificate of Achievement and those scoring above 90% a Certificate of Outstanding Achievement.

Is an assessment provided in in-house training?

In in-house trainings, a planning assessment is provided based on short forms completed during the training.

Is a specific software covered?

No. The program is software-independent; systems such as ERP, APS and MES are explained at the class level and no brand is recommended.

Is there support after the training?

After the training, you can contact us with your questions. In in-house trainings, a post-training assessment is provided.

How can I register or request a quote?

You can fill in the Registration / Request Quote form or call us at +90 (216) 322 41 70.

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  To keep training effective, seats are limited.
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