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.
