Plz read my Thesis Report n give me ur comments

Hi,

I have written the Problem Description of the project i m doing for my college. It describe the problem which a company ABC is facing in its planning process. Plz read it gve me ur comments if u can understand the problem or not, if u cannot understand it than i m sure my professor cannot understand it as well. you can modify it, what i m looking for is Acadamic English.

-- start of problem description

ABC receives production volume orders from its customers on monthly basis. ABC sends short term volume planning to its suppliers on daily and weekly basis with a twelve-month horizon. Short term volume planning process covers planning needs for the running products only.

When a new product is under development or a current product is phased out, it is necessary to inform suppliers about the same. The reason is that for phase in products suppliers need more time and resources to prepare new products. They might need to invest on human resource, machinery or expansion in order to supply parts for the new products. When there is a new project underway initial volumes are allocated to it which are based on the estimation made by looking at the potential market demands. If suppliers are not informed about the future volumes in advance than it makes harder for them to make investment decisions and in worst cases ABC can face delivery problems. For phase out products, the suppliers need to stop the production of the phase out products and consume the stocks available in the warehouse in order not to scrap the parts later. Presently, there are about thirty different projects running in ABC. To make things even more complicated each project communicate its volumes separately irrespective of other project, which can also be a cause of problem when different projects communicates volumes for the same part, which forces suppliers to consolidate project volumes manually to meet the ABC demands.

At present Project volumes sends their volume forecasts independently of the short term volume planning process. When a new product undergoes regular production, the project volumes are merged in the short term volume planning process. On introduction of project volume into short term volume planning there is a big miss-match between the Project Volume figures and the Short term Planning figures which results in much ambiguity and uncertainty. The supplier are interested in having one-source which gives reliable volume information for short term and project volumes. Therefore, there is a need to open a gate for communication between the short-term planning process and project volume planning process in order to better share information with suppliers.

Also, suppliers are not satisfied with the current short term volume information model, which includes only engine volumes and engine capacity levels. They wish to have more information included in the volumes to facilitate them in planning their production.

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