This book is written for managers who are interested in learning more about the extraordinary challenges for delivering customer orders complete and on-time, the common scheduling solutions to those challenges, and how scheduling solutions have evolved over time. It is particularly relevant to managers that are not satisfied with their current cost of delivery performance, and face symptoms identified in key business performance indicators such as late orders, lost sales from long lead times, or high production cost. As we will show in this book the quality of the schedule can have a...