scheduling
noun
- the process of arranging, controlling and optimizing work and workloads in a production process or manufacturing process; is used to allocate plant and machinery resources, plan human resources, plan production processes and purchase materials
- planning a time for an activity or event
- in archival science, process of identifying and describing records held by an organization and defining their life cycle
Wiktionary
noun
- A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
- The time at which a particular event is scheduled.
- Assignment to a schedule, or systematic arrangement.
“The use of modified unit-dose rather than eight separate pharmacies with an individual prescription system could have prevented virtually all of these inappropriate schedulings of drugs.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of schedule