The historical development of the operational planning of production

The traditional view of production management began to take shape in the XVIII century. When Adam Smith considered the economic benefits of specialization of labor. Apparently, this is the event gave an impetus to the development of operational planning of production, because the existence of specialization in production implies the presence of co-operation, that is, forms of work organization based on joint participation in a common work process a large number of workers that perform different operations of this process [1] .