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This paper investigates the extent to which Production

Operations and production managers have for long identified that production scheduling affects Corporate Productivity Performance of firms in the manufacturing industry. Studies on the influence of production scheduling mechanisms on firms' performance often overlook the possibility of it being taken for granted by managers in the course of manufacturing. This paper investigates the extent to which Production Scheduling, had affected the Corporate Productivity Performance of the Nigerian manufacturing industry. In this respect Corporate Productivity Performance is measured in the areas of cost minimization, enhanced equity capital and growth. Three hypotheses were formulated and questionnaire were distributed to eighty respondents in the eighty sampled manufacturing firms from the one hundred in the industry, quoted in the Stock Exchange(Fact Book 2009). Sixty two copies of the questionnaire were retrieved. These with the financial statements of the firms were used for the analysis. From its findings, the study revealed that production scheduling truly has insignificant impacts on Corporate Productivity Performance of Nigerian manufacturing industry. This finding implies that production Scheduling did not significantly affect the Corporate Productivity Performance of firms. Based on these, the study recommends among others, that the Nigerian manufacturing industry should totally be overhauled, especially in the areas of scheduling, in order to realign and restore the industry from total collapse.