. He realized that while they had 10 machines, they only had enough skilled labor for 8. He adjusted the schedule to match their true capacity, preventing burnout and machine breakdowns. Slideshare 4. The Action Phase: Dispatching and Control With a solid Master Production Schedule (MPS) in hand, Arjun acted as the "operational watchdog". He used Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
: Methods such as Moving Averages and Exponential Smoothing.