Product planning identifies market requirements to define a product's features. It serves as the basis for pricing, distribution, and promotion decisions. Value analysis aims to increase value, defined as function over cost, by improving function or reducing cost. Lack of product planning can lead to unsatisfied customers, quality issues, and loss of brand name. Process planning involves routing, scheduling, dispatching, and follow up based on product information, processes, capacity, orders, due dates, and resources. Economic batch quantity determines the optimal batch size to minimize average costs by balancing setup costs and inventory holding costs.