Production Scheduling Exercise

Production Scheduling Exercise Starting on 11/6/00, I’m going to research on fabric, looking for a new color/trim, and deciding which company I’m going to order from. A company with a good deal and I can rely on. By 11/8/00, I made up my mind of which company to my fabric, which the delivery will come in 3 or 4 weeks. So I schedule a little more than 4 weeks that the fabric arrive. Just in case the truc…

…ing company might be getting sick from their vacation (probably too much of snow and food). So hopefully the cutting is done 2/7/01. Then the sewing should start on 2/8/01. Since average turn-around time for the full sewing staff is 2 weeks per style, I schedule them getting done in 2 1/2 weeks, so the sewing should be done on 3/13/01. By 3/15/01, which is the ship day, will be shipping the product and with a completion date of March 30th.