Provides a short introduction to the concept of enterprise management. Enterprise management is concerned with ensuring that certain key business processes (manufacturing…
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Provides a short introduction to the concept of enterprise management. Enterprise management is concerned with ensuring that certain key business processes (manufacturing planning, scheduling and demand allocation) work in a much more co‐ordinated manner, so as to be more responsive to the customer base. Outlines the purpose and methodology of enterprise management and, in particular, an approach to software design for achieving it.
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Production scheduling is being focused on increasingly as acritical company activity. Consequently, it is becoming commonplace tohear of finite capacity scheduling systems being…
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Production scheduling is being focused on increasingly as a critical company activity. Consequently, it is becoming commonplace to hear of finite capacity scheduling systems being linked to existing MRP‐type systems, to provide a more detailed and flexible scheduling mechanism. But how easy is it to accomplish? Focuses on a user′s (a well‐known pharmaceutical company) journey to such a goal; sharing his views at the outset, his experiences along the way and the surprises that lay in store. The supplier of the system retaliates with his perspective of the experience and develops some general guidelines for selecting and installing scheduling software.
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Scheduling systems can be developed to model all the significant processes in a business and desktop computers have the power to generate integrated schedules designed to realize…
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Scheduling systems can be developed to model all the significant processes in a business and desktop computers have the power to generate integrated schedules designed to realize optimized throughput. However, the step from design and development to installation and operation introduces the power of reality that will remorselessly reveal both strengths and weaknesses in the software or in the concept. Reviews ‐ from the points of view of the developers, the system drivers and a key (new) user ‐ gains and losses, issues and advantages which came to light during the first 18 months after installation of a modern scheduling system for a multinational pharmaceutical company.