Principles Of Operations Management
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Author: RENDER, Barry, HEIZER, Jay, Munson, Chuck
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Summary Introduction
To determine: The best situation to apply the Johnson’s rule of job shop
Introduction: Scheduling is the process of controlling and arranging the workloads of the production process using the optimized way. It is used to plan the allocation of human resources and machinery.
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