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According to the Oxford Dictionary, scheduling can be defined as a plan to carry out processes or procedures through providing lists of proposed events and times. Furthermore, it can also be viewed as a day-to-day plan and one can therefore argue that most people make use of scheduling, either consciously or unconsciously, in their everyday activities. It can also be defined as the planning of an event to take place at a particular time (Oxford Dictionaries Online). On a larger scale scheduling plays an important part in the manufacturing industry. Adequate scheduling throughout all of the phases in a manufacturing environment will enable maximum output. The importance of sufficient scheduling in a fast moving industry such as a modern day printing factory is immeasurable. Insufficient production scheduling will ultimately decrease the factory’s production capacity. Scheduling can be seen as the core activity in the printing industry. This project focuses on understanding the manufacturing processes of BusinessPrint and analysing the shortcomings of their present scheduling methods. Adequate research on modern day methodologies gave guidance in order to propose a scheduling solution that should overcome the company’s scheduling challenges. The indicated benefits that the company can reap by implementing the proposed solution will convince BusinessPrint to put the solution into practice