The Oxford Copy Shop is a local copy shop that produces course packets. Professors take copies of handout and other course-related materials to the Copy Shop, which duplicates them and sells them to students. The jobs are due at the end of the day on the due dates that are provided. The store has the following jobs on hand:
Job Processing Time (days) Due Date (days) Flow Time (days)
A 4 14
B 2 9
C 8 14
D 6 22
E 7 20
You are asked to schedule and evaluate several sequencing rules. You are ready to schedule these five jobs. They are all ready to be processed.
a) Determine the sequence of jobs using the following rules: FCFS, SOT, EDD, what is the best rule?