At this point, the production manager sits down with an assistant to place the job in the production schedule.
The placement of the job depends on several factors—the due date requested, the customer, and the salesperson.
Production likes to do jobs for the large customers because these orders usually run several days with few changeovers.
This helps the production department improve its production statistics for the month.
Salespeople who are out of favor with production, for however trivial a reason, may see their jobs develop extraordinarily long lead times.