Plan production schedules in food and drink operations
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge needed to plan production schedules in food and drink operations. Ensuring organisational production requirements are met while maintaining compliance, quality and food safety is a key role in a production environment.
You must be able to map available resources to organisational requirements for production. You must know and be able to ensure resources including materials, ingredients, utilities and staffing are available and organise the production line to meet supply chain, distribution and customer requirements. Planning materials, resources, equipment and staffing is essential in the efficient management of a production line. Complying with and understanding health and safety, food safety, environmental and organisational requirements are essential features of this standard.
This standard is for you if you work in food and drink manufacture and/or supply operations and are involved in planning production schedules in food manufacture.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
1. set clear and accurate work objectives for your team
2. give your team opportunities to take responsibility for their own work and assist with the planning process
3. communicate the requirements of the production plans and check any areas about which you are unclear with the relevant person
4. produce schedules that are consistent with production plans, management priorities and objectives and conform to regulatory and organisational requirements
5. produce schedules which make cost effective use of available resources within given constraints
6. seek advice from colleagues if your production schedules appear to conflict with regulatory requirements and/or organisational objectives
7. amend production schedules in line with regulatory or organisational objectives if required
8. keep colleagues informed of production schedules, and particularly any changes, to ensure they can plan work effectively
9. liaise with relevant colleagues to identify and forecast customer needs
10. carry out pro-active production planning
11. organise bulk production to meet more than one customer order
12. change order of production to minimise work at product changeover and minimise downtime
13. plan production schedule to minimise downtime, reduce costs, reduce waste, increase efficiency and productivity
14. confirm that equipment required is available and in good working order in advance of production commencing
15. report all damage and faults promptly, with recommendations for corrective action
16. confirm that the correct type and volume of materials are available and in the correct location for production
17. confirm that the required number of staff, with the appropriate skills and knowledge are available
18. adhere to organisational requirements when maintaining records relating to planning production schedules
19. inform relevant people immediately if lack of resources will impact adversely on production outputs
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand: