ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the scheduling of components for projects which finish up as one or more manufactured assemblies. The parts scheduling task is usually complicated further because some of the parts for one assembly are also used on other assemblies, so provisioning must take all of these different uses into account. All the parts needed for the filing cabinet can be seen in the exploded view, and these could easily be listed on a parts list or bill of materials. Any part which has a very long purchase or manufacturing lead time must be ordered first. Armed with the simple parts list, the company's purchasing and production control departments would be able to provision all the materials by drawing available items from existing stocks, and either buying or making the remainder. The amount of work involved in setting up a card index for materials collation is tremendous, especially for a large project.
