Production Planning & Control is a key industrial engineering function for the manufacturing company and to comprehend these techniques and topics, it is essential to have the basic knowledge of the production functions and its scope. This book is prepared in such manner that even those who do not have much exposure to the function of production planning would be able to comprehend them, as they are related to industrial engineering. As the Planning Manager at Rallifan, heading the PP&C department, the author had the opportunity to introduce several PP&C systems and formats and with that experience, he was responsible to introduce similar systems and formats at Tanzania's National Bicycle Company right from its project stage. This experience has fully been utilised in bringing out this book on the basics of Production Planning. With all the case studies this book is expected to be of immense help not only to the engineering students, but also to practicing engineers who want to develop their career on production management. Precepts, Elements of Production Planning and Control, Factory Planning, Factors for Production, Production system, The Concept of Productivity, Organization for Production Planning and Control, Terminology used in Japanese Management Practices, Forecasting, Fundamentals of Statistics Part – I, Correlation and Probability Theory, Forecasting, Trend Analysis in Forecasting, Preplanning, Decision Theory, Types of Production Situations, Types of Production Situations, Cost of Production, Plant Location, Plant Layout, Systematic Layout Planning, Product and Process Development, Production Planning and Control, Capacity Planning, Aggregate Planning, Routing, Scheduling and Loading, Master Production Schedules, Sequencing and Line Balancing, Dispatching and Expediting, Just in Time & Kanban, Systems and Procedures, Concepts Related to PP&C, Theory of Constraints, Scientific Inventory Control, Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Manufacturing