The following jobs are waiting to be processed at Rick Carlson€™s machine centre. Carlson€™s machine centre has a relatively long backlog and sets freshschedules every two weeks, which do not disturb earlier schedules. Below are the jobs received during the previous two weeks. They are ready to be scheduled today, which is day 241 (day 241 is a work day). Job names refer to names of clients and contract numbers.

a) Complete the table below. (Show your supporting calculations.)
b) Which dispatching rule has the best score for flow time?
c) Which dispatching rule has the best score for utilization metric?
d) Which dispatching rule has the best score for lateness?
e) Which dispatching rule would you select? Support your decision.

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Date Production Date Job Job Received Days Needed Job Due BR-02 228 15 300 CX-01 225 25 270 DE-06 230 35 320 RG-05 235 40 360 SY-11 231 30 310 Average Dispatching Flow Utilization Number Average of Jobs Lateness Job Sequence Time Metric Rule EDD SPT LPT FCFS