Overall approach of tactical planning
Master schedules are more detailed than aggregate plans, so they tend to be more complicated
and messy. For both of them, however, we can use the general procedure that we described
earlier as resource requirement planning. Remember that this has six steps:
Step 1 translate forecasts and other information into a demand for resources
Step 2 find the resources currently available
Step 3 identify mismatches between resources needed and available
Step 4 suggest alternative plans for overcoming any mismatches