Examples of Backward scheduling in the following topics:
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- The purpose of scheduling is to minimize production time and costs.
- Modern scheduling tools greatly outperform older, manual scheduling methods.
- Companies use backward and forward scheduling to allocate plant and machinery resources, determine human resources and production processes, and purchase materials.
- Backward scheduling involves planning tasks from the due date or required-by date in order to determine the start date and/or necessary changes in capacity.
- This Gantt chart aids in scheduling by visualizing and relating phases of production.
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- Reduce all variations, integrate processes, use standardized parts and materials where appropriate, establish uniform delivery schedules, make performance measures transparent, and empower each manufacturing unit so that it has the capability to produce exactly what is required without having to move along multiple work centers.
- Informing people that two steps forward and one step backward is okay; no steps forward is not okay,
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- Scheduling is an operations decision that strives to provide the right mix of labor and machines to produce goods and services at the right time to achieve both efficiency and customer service goals.
- Labor (front desk clerks, room service personnel, housekeepers, bellhops, etc. ) must be scheduled carefully to meet customer demand at any given time, without scheduling excess employees that would impose unnecessary costs on the hotel.
- In a hospital setting, scheduling surgeries is a very important activity.
- Surgeons, nurses, support staff, equipment, supplies, and operating rooms must be scheduled carefully so patient surgeries can be conducted effectively and efficiently.
- At colleges and universities, scheduling the right courses with the right number of classroom seats at the right times is critical to allowing students to graduate on time.
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- Under flextime, workers are allowed to determine their work schedule instead of working during the standard hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Flexitime is a variable work schedule, in contrast to traditional work arrangements requiring employees to work a standard 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. day.
- A recent review by the Cochrane Collaboration has found that flexible working arrangements, such as flextime and telecommuting can have positive effects on health, but the effects are primarily seen when employees have some control over their new schedules.
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- Tactical decisions include workforce scheduling, establishing quality assurance procedures, contracting with vendors, and managing inventory.
- In the hospital example, scheduling the workforce to match patient admissions is critical to both providing quality care and controlling costs.
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- Cost advantages can arise either through buying or building up cheaper distribution channels (forward integration), or cheap inputs (backward integration).
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- Determine if or how employees can work from home or, work out an alternative schedule that allows employees to stagger their schedules so they can work at home part-time.
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- Examples of fringe benefits, depending on employee seniority and job requirement, are take-home vehicles, hotel stays, and first choice of such things as job assignments and vacation scheduling, as well as first option to apply to certain internal vacancies.
- When multiple choices exist, select employees may also be given first choice on such things as job assignments and vacation scheduling.
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- It uses parts and components that are provided by outside suppliers who can deliver the right parts in the right quantity in a timely way to satisfy the immediate production schedule.
- Although goods tend to flow this way, important data such as forecasts, inventory status, shipping schedules, and sales data are examples of information that is constantly being conveyed to different links in the supply chain.