What is Planning and Scheduling?
The basic idea of scheduling is to determine the timing and location of activities that will be conducted in a process to meet a set of orders or demands from customers. The process to be scheduled consists of a set of equipment, people, materials, and other resources that must be coordinated to meet the demands of the customers. An order or demand to be scheduled is typically given as a due date and quantity of material or an end state to be achieved. A schedule must take into account what is currently being executed in the process, satisfy all the process requirements, and consider preferences of people who understand the business implications of making trade offs. Planning refers to exploring the possible behavior of a process over a long period of time or under different conditions than those that currently exist.
