... putting pressure on pharmaceutical companies to change their traditional ways of doing business 1.3 Planning and Scheduling Both planning and scheduling aim at the optimal performance of an industry ... like minimizing the makespan, maximizing the production, minimizing the tardiness/earliness and so on The factors that drive scheduling in pharmaceutical plants are: Meeting the demands in the ... units 18 Chapter PLANNING IN PHARMACEUTICAL PLANTS In this chapter, we address some important aspects of planning in pharmaceutical supply chains As discussed in the introduction, pharmaceutical...