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Planning systems are designed to:

  1. (1)

    Foster good industrial relations.

  2. (2)

    Reduce production costs to a minimum.

  3. (3)

    Keep throughput times as short, and amount of work in progress as small as possible.

  4. (4)

    Achieve a high standard of reliability of delivery.

  5. (5)

    Ensure controlled and consistent growth of productivity.

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© 1976 J. J. Verzijl

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Verzijl, J.J. (1976). Planning. In: Production Planning and Information Systems. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04030-8_2

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