...Dr Sabry Shaaban; Dr Abdul Salam Darwish; Cristóvão Silva; Mark Stevenson; Matthias Thurer Purpose – Workload control (WLC) is a Production Planning and Control concept of particular relevance to small and medium sized make-to-order companies. Despite the simplicity of its core principles, few...

... in order to achieve the make-to-order (MTO) production and inventory strategy were reported. Findings – The results from simulation show that backward scheduling in job shop layout has the lowest average throughput time, lowest lateness, and highest labour productivity than forward scheduling. While...