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AI for Production Planners (Prompt Course)

14 lessons · 267 prompts

A day in the life of a Production Planner: what changes with these prompts.

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Start improving schedule reliability and throughput with AI-guided production planning

This course gives production planners, schedulers, and operations leaders a practical way to apply AI and conversational tools to day-to-day planning decisions. It focuses on repeatable prompt workflows that turn messy data into clear schedules, capacity plans, MRP insights, inventory actions, bottleneck fixes, and supplier or workforce coordination steps-while keeping quality, cost, safety, and environmental goals in view.

What you'll learn

  • How to build AI-assisted schedules that respect routings, work centers, setup times, changeovers, and due dates, and how to adjust quickly as priorities shift.
  • Ways to compare finite vs. infinite capacity assumptions, test scenarios, and align capacity with demand using AI-assisted reasoning and structured outputs.
  • MRP improvements that connect demand signals to BOMs, lead times, safety stock, and planned orders, with clear exception lists for action.
  • Fast bottleneck identification using throughput, queue time, and utilization indicators, plus suggestions to relieve constraints without causing new ones.
  • Inventory policies that balance service and cash, including ABC/XYZ thinking, reorder point logic, and mitigation for intermittent demand.
  • Quality control planning that links risk (FMEA-style thinking) to inspection steps, sampling, SPC cues, and practical nonconformance handling.
  • Lean strategy prompts to reduce waste, shorten lead time, stabilize flow, and support continuous improvement without disrupting commitments.
  • Forecast guidance that weighs seasonality, promotions, and variability, with ways to sense changes earlier and prioritize what matters.

How this course works

  1. 14 lessonsOne task of your job each, from production scheduling to environmental impact assessment.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish with the exam and a certificate for LinkedIn.