... is similar for scheduling in manufacturing Includes both in Demand and Availability * Standard processing or transaction times :Set-up time, * Quantities of material in store * Demand from customers, timing and quantities of customers' requirements. Expected finishing time. * Availability of material from outside suppliers * Amount of already completed * Capacities of facilities. Machine maintenance time, (Muhlemann, 1992,production and operations planning) * Labour Besides, labour is very critical, their hours of work, the factory's shut down time, labour requirements for each department (for each section), overtime for the labour and etc(absenteeism and accidents), etc(appendix a) * standard Costing Sheet (Inc wage cost, material cost & overhead) * efficiency of each department Sources of the information: Where we can get our required information, usually they are obtained from the orders (outside), such as the due date we should hand our products and the quantities of the products. Others we can obtain from different departments (inside), such as: * manufacturing route ...

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