Principles of Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (10th Edition)
Principles of Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134181981
Author: Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
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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