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Certificate in Capacity Planning

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Capacity Planning


About Capacity Planning
Capacity planning refers to the capability to develop plans to better manage the available capacity of resources at disposal of the organization.


Capacity planning is widely used by production lines, service providers, and managers to make plans for optimum usage of the organizational resources which usually includes manpower, machines, tool, experts, etc.


Why is Capacity Planning important?

Capacity planning is an important part of organizational immediate future plans to address the likely demand. Capacity planning helps companies by
•    Ensuring resource availability
•    Highlighting any shortages in skills, tools, or space
•    Make timely plans to fulfill future demands
•    Provide a blueprint for optimum resource usage in future
•    Reduce sudden spikes in resource costs
•    Makes availability and scheduling of resources more transparent
•    Enables informed data-based decision making

Who should take the Capacity Planning Exam?
•    Business managers and senior executives
•    Business owners
•    Anyone who wants to assess their capacity management skills
•    Entrepreneurs
•    Logistics or SCM professionals
•    Production in charge or managers


Capacity Planning Certification Course Outline

1. Forecasting
2. Sales and Operations Planning
3. Inventory Management
4. Material Requirements Planning
5. Production Scheduling
6. Capacity Planning Basics
7. ITIL Capacity Management


Certificate in Capacity Planning FAQs

You can directly go to the certification exam page and register for the exam.

You will be required to re-register and appear for the exam. There is no limit on exam retake.

There will be 50 questions of 1 mark each

No there is no negative marking

You have to score 25/50 to pass the exam.

The result will be declared immediately on submission.

It will be a computer-based exam. The exam can be taken from anywhere around the world.