Estruturação do setor de Planejamento e Controle de Produção (PCP) em uma empresa produtora de polpa de frutas

Abstract

The aim of this work is to ground the creation of the production planning and control department in a fruit pulp industry, in view of the current production management, drawing upon the company Pomar da Polpa. As a side result, this work seeks to revise and improve processes methodologies involved in the production chain, and also introduce new management indicators and operational tools. The study starts with an exploration of the productive sector of fruit pulp industry in different scopes, to later connect the analysis of demand and production leveling in search of a process characteristically more pull and with optimized stocks. Subsequently, it was developed the master production scheduling and also the productive capacity, guaranteeing better strategic positioning and better analysis within the supply chain. Finally, the study proceed with the diagnosis of the management methodologies, production coordination tools, stability and capacity study, and then the indicators of production control, to aid in decision making process. The results achieved show that the company Pomar da Polpa has a production process that is robust enough to allow the creation of a PPP sector, which can achieve excellent operational performance if managed by the characteristic guidelines of a production planning and control sector.