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Loading, Sequencing,

Routing, Scheduling
Routing, Prioritizing , Dispatching
The operation manager designs a product according to customer

requirements and decides the order of works centres or department


through which the product should be processed. This is called the
routing plan, specifies the route to be followed by a semi finished good
from one department to another.
The Operation manager must send information about the details

schedule of various order to the production supervisor in the form of


dispatch lists. This is called dispatching the dispatch lists.
 The priority or importance of each customer order for processing is

another important task in scheduling. This is called prioritization.


Expediting
The operation manager has to keep track of the process of various jobs.

In practical situations, there are instances when there are deviations


from the schedule during the implementation of jobs.
This may be due to machine breakdown, delay in the delivery of raw

materials, some last minutes rush orders.


In such situations, the schedule may have to be revised by the

manager and some jobs expedited or handles on a special priority


basis. This is called expediting in scheduling terminology.
What is Scheduling ?

Scheduling is a method where there is a set of x tasks which need to

be completed on a set of y resources in an efficient manner.

“Companies use backward and forward scheduling to allocate plant

and machinery resources, plan human resources, plan production

processes and purchase materials.”


Forward Scheduling
Assigning customer orders or jobs to various works centres based on

‘as early as possible’ . A job is scheduled at a work centre as soon as it


is free to process job.
The job is then finished as soon as possible. This approach is based on

the assumption that a customer is ready to receive the goods as soon


as these are produced.
Forward scheduling may result in jobs being completed earlier then the

requested due date because forward scheduling schedules the tasks as


early as possible.

Backward Scheduling
 Another way of scheduling is backward scheduling, ‘as last as possible’ that

jobs are finished by their due dates for delivery to the customer. The planning
process starts with assigning the job to the last work centre in the processing
sequence.
 According to the processing time of the job at the various work centres, the

schedule is worked out towards the beginning of the processing sequence.


This approach results on a significant reduction of work in progress /
inventory
 Backwards scheduling requires a delivery date from the customer because the

system schedules backwards from the delivery date to arrive at a start date.
Finite and Infinite Loading
Loading means assigning tasks to work centres or machines. Every

machine or work centre has a maximum production capacity for a


normal working day.
Finite loading involves assigning tasks to work centres such that the

maximum capacity of the work centre is not exceeded at any time.


Infinite loading means overlooking the maximum capacity of machine

or work center while assigning task to it.


Machine beyond its maximum capacity of eight working hours per day.

Operations manager knows that the excess work scheduled during

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