OPER-3006EL Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Due Date, Assignment Problem, Oncology
5 Nov 2018
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Effective and efficient scheduling means (1) better use of assets and lower costs, (2) improving customer service through faster delivery, and (3) providing more dependable deliveries through realistic commitments. Short-term schedules translate capacity decisions, aggregate planning, and master schedules into job sequences and specific assignments of personnel, materials, and machinery. The objective of scheduling is to allocate and prioritize demand, generated by forecasts or by customer orders, to available facilities two significant factors in achieving this are: the type of scheduling (forward or backward) Forward scheduling scheduling that begins the schedule as soon as the requirements are known: designed to produce a schedule that can be accomplished even if it means not meeting the due date. In many instances, it causes a build-up of work-in-progress inventory. In practice, a combination of forward and backward scheduling is often used to find a reasonable trade-off between what can be achieved and customer due dates: the scheduling criteria.
