2 It is week 35 of a busy year at Ashby Architects and Jo Ashby is facing...
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2 It is week 35 of a busy year at Ashby Architects and Jo Ashby is facing a big problem. Both her two junior partners have been diagnosed with a serious illness contracted on a trip to scope out a prospective job in Lichtenstein. So Jo has to step in and complete the outstanding jobs that were being worked on by the two juniors. The outstanding jobs are shown in Table¦10.6.
Jo has heard that a sequencing rule called the critical ratio (CR) will give efficient results. The priority of jobs using the CR rule is defined by an index computed as follows:
CR = Time remaining Workdays remaining = Due date - Today’s date Workdays remaining Using this rule, in what priority should Jo give the jobs?
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Operations Management
ISBN: 978-1292408248
10th Edition
Authors: Nigel Slack ,Alistair Brandon-Jones ,Nicola Burgess