Business Management

Operations Management

BUS 307 Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques

When working for any business, it is vital that one keeps up with their day to day inventories and demand. By doing this, it allows management will follow a technique called master scheduling. The master scheduling permits management to establish targets for the demand, production and ending inventories. Having these targets will direct the companies to keep track of forecasted demands, booked orders, projected inventory levels, production quantities and units still available to meet customer needs otherwise known as available to promise. (Bozarth & Handfield, 2008, ) While viewing the Realco Breadmaster, the first thing that should have been completed was a master schedule such as...