The Strategic Short-Term Shop-floor Management is a management approach that links decisions taken on a daily-basis at the shop-floor with the strategic goals of the organization, by using a finite capacity scheduling simulator. Using this system, the production planner is able to generate alternative production schedules (scenarios) for the shop-floor and to evaluate the impacts of her (his) decisions through different operational and economical performance measures. This thesis is based on the knowledge accrued in developing and implementing these simulators in different industrial sites and is organized into parts. The first part addresses a technological dimension by examining aspects of the simulation model that are relevant for generating schedules adherent to the shop-floor reality. The second part focuses on an organizational and human dimension and describes a methodology for implementing the Strategic Short- Term Shop-floor Management. Among the results obtained in an actual application of this managerial approach, the following stand out: a reduction of work-in-process, more flexibility in the shop-floor for dealing with mix and volume variations of demand, and a decrease in the time spent by planners for scheduling the plant activities.