During the past several years, a large number of studies have been conducted in the area of sharable resource constrained scheduling problems. Intelligent manufacturing planning and scheduling based on meta-heuristic methods, such as the simulated annealing and particle swarm optimization, have become common tools for finding satisfactory solutions within reasonable computational times in real ...

T oday's manufacturing enterprise, whether it produces consumer goods or weapons systems , must often juggle a range of conflicting demands. Smaller lot sizes, increased product flexibility, higher product quality, decreased delivery time, and smaller profit margins are typical of the ambitious goals in many such organizations. Through it all, the enterprise must consistently aim for the five R...

The current study mainly aimed at validating the model of End User Computing Satisfaction (EUCS) in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in food production companies. In the EUCS model a Logit model on the seven items was applied. The tool used for the study was a questionnaire. A total of 126 questionnaires were collected from the ones given to ERP end users from food manufacturing in Mal...

This paper investigates the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the context of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The paper reports on research findings from a case study that has been conducted in 14 SMEs, operating in steel manufacturing and woodworking. By dividing the enterprises into three different groups; medium-sized, small, and micro enterprises, this study pro...

The Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance and Technology (OTA) is offering the Right from the Start program to provide Massachusetts businesses with the technical and regulatory support needed to maximize environmental and economic performance. It is especially designed to encourage businesses seeking permits for expansion or start up of new manufacturing operations to consider pollution...

i Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are revolutionalizing the way companies streamline business processes, share information within and across businesses, and conduct electronic business (Lee et al. 2003). The ERP acronym is an outgrowth of MRP (materials requirements planning) and MRP II (manufacturing resource planning), older types of manufacturing-specific software that aim to stre...

Simply stated, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system identifies and plans “the...resources needed to take, make, ship and account for customer orders.” 1 To achieve these important tasks, ERP uses a variety of information technologies such as graphical user interfaces, relational databases, advanced computer languages and computer assisted software engineering tools. In essence, implemen...

Purpose: Considering the importance of human resource planning for organizational citizenship behavior, the purpose of this study was identify, explain and prioritize human resource planning factors in order to occurrence organizational citizenship behavior by employees. Methodology: The present research was descriptive from type of qualitative-quantitative. The research population in the qual...