Production planning and production control mainly focus on optimising the entire production system of a company. On the basis of hierarchical planning as a suitable method for solving this task, this paper showsbesides the economic dimension taken into account so far-that there are also social and ecological effects which will have to be considered in the process of planning. For this purpose, we would like to indicate here which social and ecological parameters can be or have already been taken into account for master production scheduling, for lot sizing and resource scheduling. As a result, an overview has been created which presents the existing concepts of sustainable production planning and production control as well as the existing deficits regarding the sustainability perspective.

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Due to missing social researches for production planning and control this article shows a linear optimisation model for master production scheduling in consideration of social criteria. First results indicate, that low costs not caused by maximum workload but by low capacity variation.

The requirements to consider worker utilizations and processing times, which depends on this worker utilization, are examined at the following paper for the Master Production Scheduling. For this reason, it is shown, that there is a gap in research regarding the social dimension in the range of Production Planning and Control. Thus, there are presented an own developed linear optimization model for the Master Production Scheduling with consideration of social criteria and an appropriate case study at this paper. The results demonstrate substantial deviations due to the ignorance from worker utilizations and worker utilization specific processing times. Therefore, the integration of these criteria is to be recommended. But it is also shown, that there is a need for further research activities for the development of specific human fatigue courses, like it also exists for human learning courses.