Designing a Direct Labor Planning Model for production management of pharmaceutical companies

• Autor: Quispe Canales, Gustavo Raúl
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/17391
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/idata/article/view/17391
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Production plan; direct workforce planning; capacity of direct labor; critical resource; Kaizen method; Plan de producción; planificación de la MOD; capacidad de la MOD; método Kaizen; recurso crítico

In the pharmaceutical industry, production planning responds to changes in customer demand and internal company processes. Processes in this industry are not value-additive, although the industry does present opportunities for improvement, such as reducing overtime, which occurs more than 30% of the time; reducing production rescheduling, which reaches 40%; and improving level of customer service for state institutions, who represent 70% of purchase orders. These situations need to be improved within the company; and as a result, a sales and operations model that includes direct labor planning is designed. This model should enable a reduction of overtime and calculation of the amount of direct labor taking into account efficiency level. In practice, this is the expected outcome; it is achieved via the decisions made by the operations executive.