| Article ID: | iaor1990901 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Start Page Number: | 123 |
| End Page Number: | 131 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1987 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Oliff Michael D., Burch E. Earl, Sumichrast Robert T. |
| Keywords: | scheduling |
Hierarchical planning and scheduling methods, properly applied, can bridge the gap between theory and practice in production planning. This article demonstrates such an approach in nontechnical terms so that it can be implemented and describes two successful applications to actual scheduling problems.