Improving Decision Making within Production Control

Companies are facing more and more the challenge to achieve a high production logistic performance in order to stay competitive.The task of production control is to ensure high adherence to delivery dates, short throughput times and low costs by using adequate control principles.Production control is in general characterized by many decisions which have to be made in order to achieve a good production control performance.Wrong decisions about order release and prioritization, however, lead to poor logistic performance.In order to achieve short throughput times and therefore a high adherence to delivery dates, employees of production control for example tend to change orders' priorities very often which leads to big internal turbulences within production and to a high spread of throughput times.The aim of this paper is to develop decisions guidelines in order to improve employees decisions within production control to achieve better logistic performance.