Production Control in the Company

Abstract

The aim of the article is to get to know the essence of production control in the activity of enterprises. This background presents: the role of control in the enterprise and its classification with particular emphasis on production control. Production control plays an important role in the proper course of the production process. On the one hand, it comes down to the preparation of production plans, creating cost budgets for the company's production parts, and on the other hand to control their implementation. In the scope of production control, economic control of production is taken into account, defined as a direct and indirect impact on the shape of the assortment- and quantity-related structure of production and its course in time and space to ensure, in the given circumstances, the best achievement of the organization's goals. Production control may refer to strategic planning, where the most important is to strike a balance between the flexibility of using production means and workforce, availability of technology and substitute technologies or operational planning, where the key task is to find and eliminate bottlenecks occurring in the production process.