AGGREGATE PRODUCTION PLANNING OF VINILEX PAINT 25 KG PILE FOR RAMADHAN SEASON 2018

Abstract

PT Nipsea Paint and Chemicals Indonesia or well known as Nippon Paint is a big manufacturing company that works in paint and coating industry. The entire activities at PT Nipsea Paint and Chemicals Indonesia matter as this company is well known as a company with high standard of safety, particularly those involving in the core activity of production planning. The most concern of company is coping with demand during incoming Ramadhan. Even though there is an existing forecasting technique utilised by the MRP department of company, it had experienced loss of sales during last year’s Ramadhan. At the production site, the number of workers were not enough to produce enough, even with daily overtime, hence underproduction. This research is conducted to analyze the forecasting technique used to correspond with the demand trend which is categorised into time-series forecast at PT Nipsea Paint and Chemicals, aggregate planning method to deal with labour cost and inventory, and finally lot sizing matter for saving up cost.