Abstract
One proposal for improving the combined performance of a shop and its associated inventory system is to incorporate inventory information into priority scheduling rules. This paper describes several ways that inventory information can be used for scheduling purposes. It also reports the results of simulation experiments that were conducted to evaluate the gain in performance resulting from the inclusion of inventory data in scheduling rules. The results of these experiments indicate that in designing scheduling rules, an increase in the amount and availability of inventory data is far less important in improving manufacturing performance than the application of a modest amount of inventory theory.
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