Slide MGT209 Slide15

Operations
Management
Short-Term Scheduling
Chapter 15
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Outline
 GLOBAL COMPANY PROFILE: DELTA AIRLINES
 THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF SHORTTERM SCHEDULING
 SCHEDULING ISSUES
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Forward and Backward Scheduling

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Scheduling Criteria

 SCHEDULING PROCESS-FOCUSED WORK
CENTERS
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Outline - Continued
 LOADING JOBS IN WORK CENTERS
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Input-Output Control
Gantt Charts
Assignment Method

 SEQUENCING JOBS IN WORK CENTERS
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Priority Rules for Dispatching Jobs
Critical Ratio
Sequencing N Jobs on Two Machines: Johnson’s Rule

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Outline - Continued
 LIMITATIONS OF RULE-BASED DISPATCHING
SYSTEMS

 FINITE SCHEDULING
 THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS
 BOTTLENECK WORK CENTERS
 REPETITIVE MANUFACTURING
 SCHEDULING FOR SERVICES
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Scheduling Service Employees with Cyclical
Scheduling

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Learning Objectives
When you complete this chapter, you
should be able to :

Identify or Define:
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Gantt charts
Assignment method
Sequencing rules
Johnson’s rules
Bottlenecks

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Learning Objectives - continued
When you complete this chapter, you
should be able to :
Describe or Explain:
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Scheduling
Sequencing
Shop loading
Theory of constraints

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