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Unit 14: Operations Scheduling




          Step 1                                                                                Notes

              From the schedule of net recruitments for the week, find all the days that exclude  the
               maximum daily requirements.

              Select the day that has the lowest total requirements.
              Select the day with the lowest total requirements.
              Suppose that the numbers of employees required are.

               Monday:       8   Tuesday:     9   Wednesday:     12  Thursday:   12
               Friday:       10  Saturday:    8   Sunday:        4
               The maximum capacity requirement is 12 employees, on Wednesday. The lowest total
               requirement is on Sunday with 4 workers.

          Step 2

              If a tie occurs, choose any one of the tied days. The  tie could be broken by asking the
               employee who is being scheduled to make the choice.

          Step 3

              Assign the employee the selected day off.
              Subtract the requirements satisfied by the employee from the net requirements for each
               day the employee is to work.
          In this case, the employee is assigned Sunday off. After requirements are subtracted, Monday’s
          recruitments are 7, Tuesday’s is 8, Wednesday’s is 11, Thursday’s is 11, Friday’s is 9, and Saturday’s
          is 7. Sunday’s requirements do not change because no employee is yet scheduled to work on
          those days.

          Step 4

              Repeat steps 1-3 until all requirements have been satisfied or a certain number of employees
               have been scheduled.
          This method reduces the amount of slack capacity assigned to days having low requirements
          and forces the days having high recruitments to be scheduled first.


          Self Assessment

          Fill in the blanks:
          1.   ……………… is basically an order in which the jobs, waiting before an operational facility,
               are processed.
          2.   Scheduling starts  with the  ………………, which  defines  current and future  resource
               requirements based on current and forecasted customer orders.
          3.   ……………… can be flexed by scheduling manpower, buying additional inexpensive plant
               machinery, recruiting unskilled or semiskilled staff, or sub-contracting, or overtime.






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