In manufacturing scheduling, physical inventories of goods can buffer variations in demand, but service scheduling normally lacks that buffer because services are generally consumed at the same time they are delivered.

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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