• The benefits of input supply management include taking advantage of price discounts, anticipating input needs, and more orderly and timely delivery of inputs.
• Scheduling is an allocation decision,
• The schedule shows what it to be done, when it will be done who will do it, and what equipment will be needed.
• Scheduling has three distinct, competing objectives: cost, schedule, and performance.
• Two scheduling techniques can be useful for farming: Sequencing and dispatching.
• Sequencing is a procedure for scheduling people, jobs, equipment, and other resources over several weeks or months. Gantt charts are used for sequencing.
• Dispatching rules help a manager decide which jobs have the highest priority and should be done first on a certain day.
• The most beneficial dispatching rules for farmers are SPT, EDD, and economic importance