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What is the difference between planning and scheduling?

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Question added by Khaled Anwar , Senior Sales Engineer , "Automotive company''
Date Posted: 2015/05/10

future activities which are required to achieve or complete a task called planning and this can be scheduled or unscheduled but when we bound these activities in time and secquence, that is called scheduling. 

Nasir Hussain
by Nasir Hussain , Sales And Marketing Manager , Pakistan Pharmaceutical Products Pvt. Ltd.

Planning is the process of identifying all activities necessary to complete a project

while

Scheduling is the process of determining the sequential order of activities, assigning planned duration and determining the start and finish dates of each activity.

 

Planning is a prerequisite to scheduling because there is no way to determine the sequence until they are defined...however they become synonymous because they are performed interactively...

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

Planning and scheduling go hand in hand. A plan is the theory or the details of how something like a project will get done. A plan is used to create a road map for the achievement of an objective. A schedule, when linked to a plan, is assigning times and dates to specific steps of the plan

Muhammad Adeel
by Muhammad Adeel , Sales And Marketing Executive , TANZEEM HEAVY EQUIPMENT RENTAL LLC

Planning defines WHAT and HOW, while scheduling defines WHEN and WHO.

Planning should always be done before scheduling. Planning is, for example, to get the right spare parts, materials, permits, tools, and skills defined.

Scheduling is deciding when and by whom the job is done. Operations and maintenance need to work in a close partnership in order to achieve high scheduling performance since maintenance scheduling is highly depending on production scheduling.

Bhavin Mehta CCP(CCE), PMP
by Bhavin Mehta CCP(CCE), PMP , Assistant Manager , Larsen and Toubro Ltd

Scheduling is a subset of Planning. In scheduling you just do activity listing out, sequencing, dependencies and resource loading.

While planning, in addition to the above, covers creation and updation entire project management plan (Scope, time, cost, risk, procurement, quality, communication, stakeholder management plans).

محمد إبراهيم نعيم محمد العشرى
by محمد إبراهيم نعيم محمد العشرى , مصرفى ممتاز خدمة عملاء , البنك أﻻهلي المصري

mr khaled i would like to appreciate your question

planning is the basic and first step in management process and it identifies the organization strategies either it's strategic, technical or operational plans

it identifies the organizational goals and the steps should be taken in order to achieve these goals

in other wards planning is the organization guideline

scheduling is related to planning as it takes the steps of the plans and assign the time scales to these steps should be done according to the adopted plans

thanks for the good question and i hope that i added any

SH ALA
by SH ALA , Secratary , AL-HAL

I personally think planning is always ahead of scheduling , before you set a activity in your schedule or meeting , you have to plan first, with planning first you'll more likely to accomplish what you wanted to do.

Georges Aref Chaoul
by Georges Aref Chaoul , Business Unit Director - Consumer Services , Kaizen Asset Management Services

I would like to say that planning without scheduling is an act of business chaos and scheduling without planning is an act of business failure.

 

PLANNING is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal.         

 

SCHEDULING is a basic and a very important time management tool.

 

TIME MANAGEMENT  is the process of planning and control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

                 Thank You.

Asad Ahmed
by Asad Ahmed , Manager Finance & Company Secretary , Connect Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Planning means to plan the work how to do it, i.e. what resources are required, who will do it, when will do it. where as scheduling is to prioritize the task that and give assigned the number i.e Job #1 and so on. it also mean that assign the time to a job i.e. the job have to be done at this time. 

Emad Mohammed said abdalla
by Emad Mohammed said abdalla , ERP & IT Software, operation general manager . , AL DOHA Company

I fully agree with the answer been added by Vinod Jetley ........... Thanks

Ramy Mohamed
by Ramy Mohamed , Commercial Manager MEA , R M S Import and Export

Planning is setting goals & objectives with assigning strategies to achieve them.

Sceduling is divide our objectives into tasks with assigning personal responsibility & time li it for every task.

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