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How do managers plan, schedule, and control production activities?
How do managers plan, schedule, and control production activities? (IntroductionToBusiness OP 8D04gAa · 2026-10-07-36573 · Glossary) — "Operations management:…
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- Operations management manages the production process.
- Production planning considers the competitive environment and the firm's strategic goals to find the best production methods.
- Production scheduling tools support the planning and control of production activities.
- Critical path method (CPM) is a scheduling tool for determining the critical path of project activities.
- The critical path is the longest path through the linked activities in a CPM network.
- Program evaluation and review technique (PERT) is similar to CPM but uses multiple time estimates for each activity.
- PERT assigns optimistic, most probable, and pessimistic time estimates.
- PERT helps managers anticipate delays and potential problems and schedule accordingly.
- Gantt charts are bar graphs plotted on a timeline that compare scheduled and actual production.
