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Production Planning
and Scheduling
19.1 INTRODUCTION
Production scheduling is very similar to aggregate planning. While aggregate planning determines
the amount of resources necessary to produce a certain number of units, production scheduling
determines the development of a schedule of how long it takes to make a certain number of prod-
ucts. Production scheduling answers the following questions:
1. When are the products to be produced?
2. How much of each product will be produced?
3. For how long will the products be produced?
In this chapter, we focus on what is necessary to generate a schedule that meets demand. A rm’s
success