Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (12th Edition)
Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134130422
Author: Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
Publisher: PEARSON
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To determine: The four criteria for 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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