Operations Management
Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780132921145
Author: Jay Heizer
Publisher: PEARSON
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To determine: The objective of scheduling.

Introduction: Scheduling is the process of controlling and arranging the workloads of the production process using an optimized method. It is used to plan allocating human resources and machinery.

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The major objective of scheduling is as follows:

The major objective of scheduling is that it is used to allocate human resources and material resources in an optimized way. It helps the firm to attain the production objective efficiently, without wasting resources.

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