BU385 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Material Requirements Planning, Job Scheduler, Strategic Planning
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Work centre a production area consisting of one or more workers and machines with similar capabilities: considered as one unit for purpose of scheduling. Staff scheduling determining for each employee the work days, start and end times on each work day. Many decisions must be made before job scheduling: strategic planning (e. g. capacity, aggregate planning (e. g. selection and training, master production scheduling, material requirements planning. Shop-floor control execution of the schedule; maintaining, communicating, and monitoring the status of material, orders, and process; and taking any necessary actions. Forward scheduling scheduling ahead, beginning from the start date of a job. Backward scheduling scheduling by working backwards from the due date: mrp does this. Loading the assignment of jobs to work centres and to various machines within each work centre. Easy in cases where a job can be processed only by a specific line/machine. Challenging when multiple jobs are to be processed, and multiple work centres are capable to perform the jobs.
