This document discusses manufacturing planning and self-inspection in the pharmaceutical industry. It begins by introducing manufacturing planning, noting its importance in efficiently managing material flow, equipment utilization, and responding to customer demand. It then discusses factors like customer demand for quality, agile competition, and technology impacts that drive changes in manufacturing. The document outlines elements of manufacturing planning like routing, scheduling, and dispatching. It also discusses the importance of aspects like initial planning, process design review, and validating measurement systems for quality. The document then introduces self-inspection, noting its objectives to improve compliance and quality. It discusses criteria for self-inspections including covering all GMP aspects and having qualified inspection teams.