Studie av planerings- och produktionsprocess i sågverksbranschen

The sawmill industry is a relative fragmented industry that is in an economic upswing and with a hard competition. The customers have high demands on their suppliers and the high customer demand make it necessary for the companies to make a streamlining in planning and production. For that reason it is very important that the planning- and production processes aren’t to complex and with a simple structure. The purpose of this report is to study and map out a marked out part of a planning- and production process, from adjust works to final delivery, at a company in the sawmill industry. Different methods have been used for the report, among others interviews and subordinated material. We have mapped out a marked out part of the planning- and production process at the Company. This part we have studied, and we have analysed the process it self and other things connected to the process. We see the planning- and production process in the Company as complex. The process and the people that work within it should get positive things out of a process mapping. We bring up and discuss the fact that it is a key person that has the most knowledge about our part of the process. We mean that they have to make much of this key persons knowledge explicit for the rest of the employees. If the Company start to use a MRP system they have the opportunity to relieve pressure of the key person and in the same time give more of the employees the opportunity to gain increased knowledge about the planning- and production process The Company can now, with the help of our process mapping, carry out a process analysis for their processes. They should also implement a new planning system because it will help to make the planning process more efficient. We also think that the Company should implement a MRP system because it would take the pressure of the key person and it will make it easier for the Company to divide the knowledge that exists within it.