SMART-1 is the first of the Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology (SMART): an element of ESA's Horizons 2000 plan for scientific projects, which aims to test key technologies for future cornerstone missions. It is intended as a flight demonstration of Electric Primary propulsion (EP). The Flight Control Team (FCT) controls the mission from the SMART-1 Mission Operations Centre located at ESOC. SMART-1 being a low-cost mission required all facilities to be based on extensions of existing ground segment infrastructure, tailored to meet the requirements of the SMART-1 mission. This constraint together with the concern on end-to-end consistency - from Flight Control Procedure (FCP) design towards Telecommand execution onboard - form the driving factors for the Smart-1 Scheduler (S1S) development. Finally, as the Smart-1 mission control team is only a very small team, the main operational purpose of the S1S is to improve efficiency by automating routine tasks during operations whilst minimising the additional effort in the preparation phase.