Before revision: Aggregate planning is a pupply chain management activity that produces aggregate plans for the production process, in advance of 6 to 18 months, to give an idea to management regarding the match between demand of products and available capacity The quantity of outsourcing, subcontracting of items, overtime of labour, numbers to be hired and fired in each period and the amount of inventory to be held in stock and to be backlogged for each period are decided.
After revision: Aggregate planning is a supply chain management activity that produces aggregate plans for the production process, in advance of 6 to 18 months, to give an idea to management regarding the match between demand of products and available capacity The quantity of outsourcing, subcontracting of items, overtime of labour, numbers to be hired and fired in each period and the amount of inventory to be held in stock and to be backlogged for each period are decided.