Because of the significance of labor in the scheduling of services, behavioral and social issues, wage and hour laws, and union contracts all complicate the scheduling process.

Short-term scheduling in operations management involves allocating and prioritizing demand. It matches daily and hourly requirements to specific equipment and personnel.  The goal of short-term scheduling is to allocate and prioritize demand. It involves: Resource allocation: Guiding what machines, materials, tools, and people should do Dispatching production units: Sending orders or materials to certain parts of the plant  Some examples of short-term scheduling algorithms include: First come, first served: Jobs are completed in order of arrival Shortest job first: Runs the fastest jobs... Show more

Short-term scheduling in operations management involves allocating and prioritizing demand. It matches daily and hourly requirements to specific equipment and personnel. 

The goal of short-term scheduling is to allocate and prioritize demand. It involves:
Resource allocation: Guiding what machines, materials, tools, and people should do
Dispatching production units: Sending orders or materials to certain parts of the plant 

Some examples of short-term scheduling algorithms include:
First come, first served: Jobs are completed in order of arrival
Shortest job first: Runs the fastest jobs first
Round robin: Gives a process an allotted time and continues until it's finished or its time expires
Priority schedules: Sorts and runs jobs based on some variety of priority ranking 

A good scheduling approach should be: simple, clear, easily understood, easy to carry out, flexible, and realistic. 
Some typical rules when scheduling operation sequences include: Shortest setup time, Shortest processing time, Earliest due date, and Lowest value of critical ratio. 
A short-term schedule is often two to six weeks long, depending on the project. 

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