Schedule design provides answers to questions involving how much to produce and when to produce.
In order to know the answer from how much to produce and when to produce, this is based on the forecasting of demand. This is marketing matter.
Schedule design decisions impact the selection of machines, number of shifts, number of employees, space requirement, storage policy, building size and so on. Thus, all of them also affect to facility design.
To plan for schedule design, the needed information concerns production volumes and tendency of demand.
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