CMA Intermediate · Operations Management and Strategic Management · Scheduling and Queuing Models
Mehta Fabricators receives an order that must be delivered on 30 June. The planner starts from 30 June and works back through each operation's duration to find the latest date each operation must begin. This approach is known as:
This is backward scheduling. The planner starts from the promised delivery date and works backwards, subtracting each operation's time, to find the latest dates by which operations must begin. Forward scheduling does the reverse, starting now and computing the earliest completion date.
- AForward scheduling
- BBackward schedulingCorrect
- CInfinite loading
- DGantt crashing
Explanation
Backward scheduling begins from the due date and subtracts operation times to find latest start dates. Forward scheduling begins from the earliest available date and finds the earliest completion date, which is the opposite approach.
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