Chapter 3 Overview of Production Strategies
A good schedule is one that has the agility and flexibility to meet disruption, is accepted and supported by the production organization, can be executed, minimizes total delivered costs, and meets the customer’s quantities and due dates.
The production strategy is the foundation of scheduling. It’s impossible to create a good schedule if the production strategy can’t be executed in practice or was not designed to properly balance costs and customer service.
Many companies, large and small, have found that a well-designed, structured, repetitive scheduling strategy that focuses attention on throughput and operating efficiency can yield financial benefits over the methodologies ...
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