Operations Scheduling
Objective 7-5 Discuss the information contained in four kinds of operations schedules—the master operations schedule, detailed schedule, staff schedule, and project schedule.
Continuing with the flow of activities in Figure 7.4, once managers and their teams have determined the operations plans, they then develop timetables for implementing the plans. This aspect of operations, called operations scheduling, identifies times when specific activities will occur. In this section we consider four general kinds of schedules. (1) The master schedule is “the game plan” for deciding the volume of upcoming activities for months ahead. (2) Detailed schedules show day-to-day activities that will occur in production. (3) Staff schedules ...
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