Scheduling Personnel, Equipment and Work:

Scheduling of personnel, machines, production jobs, and production belong the list of never ending task. For instance, a company has to shift its sales department to larger building. Then, existing building ought to be vacated before some deadline and decisions about tasks, ordering of new phone lines and computers, personnel and beginning time of each of the tasks, has to be taken without interrupting the current sales. Essentially, a manager should make tradeoffs among cost, customer service, and quality in taking such decisions.