Question

You make fancy, custom l light fixtures. You currently have orders from four important customers. The list below describes the work (the load) that is currently in production, which works 8 hours per day, M-F, with one highly skilled employee. There is no other work in the work center, it is the beginning of the day 3/4, a Monday, no work has been done on any job. Work must be completed by NOON of the day it is due to ship (takes several hours to process and pack a finished item for shipment), so that it can be shipped later in the day or customers can come to pick it up by the end of the day. If it is not done by noon, it cannot ‘ship’ until the next work day. Given the information below, answer the questions listed: (only count working days)

Job	Arrived	Hours to Process	Scheduled Ship Date (must be done by noon to ship that day)
103	2/22	20	3/5
104	2/25	16	3/14
101	2/20	12	3/13
102	2/21	24	3/4

In what order should the items be built using the shortest operation next rule, and when would each item start and finish, and how late items would be in hours? Fill in the dispatch list table and create a Gantt chart to show this

Dispatch List, in build order:

Decision Criteria Value	Job #	Arrival date	Process time	Job Start	Job Finish	Due date	Late? Y/N	Hours late

Answer 1

The dispatch schedule as per shortest operation next rule is following:

Jobs are scheduled in the order of shortest processing time.