The major characteristics of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) are an enterprise-wide system that covers all the business functions and information resources, integrated database, built-in best industry practice, packaged software and open architecture. ERP enables reduction of system development time, flexibility, standardization of workflow and effective business planning capability. ERP is ...

The objective of this paper is to present a modeling procedure, based on the use of statistical methods, to develop predictive models for Information Technology (IT) capacity planning. The goal of these models is to be able to predict IT variables’ behaviour, using initial inputs provided by high-level business explanatory variables. The modelling process consists in two main sequences, explora...

For each industrial, lean manufacturing is “The method” to improve productivity and reduce cost. One of the tools for lean is cellular manufacturing. This technique reduces the factory to several small entities, which are easier to manage. The main difficulty of the cellular manufacturing is the creation of these small entities called cells. When the flexibility is used during the production pr...

To gain competitive advantages in the global market, many Chinese manufacturing firms have invested heavily in implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Evidence shows however that ERP post-implementation performance has varied significantly between firms. This paper aims to investigate such variances in performance in the Chinese manufacturing context, particularly at a plant le...

The industrialization of the IT service industry aims at transferring concepts of traditional manufacturing companies to IT service providers in order to achieve efficiency gains. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been irreplaceable for traditional manufacturing industries in achieving today’s efficiency level. As the provisioning of IT services exhibits parallels to traditional m...

Manufacturing companies are increasingly dependent on external resources and are endeavoring to develop and manage the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) information systems capabilities and strategic inter-firm relationships concurrently and dynamically to leverage external resources for competitive advantage. This paper investigates and theorizes about the correlation between different types ...

This paper discusses various issues in integrated manufacturing planning that establish the need for incremental process planning. Interfaces between process planning and design, facility planning and scheduling modules are explained in order to verify that process plans are developed afcer receiving a feedback from other manufacturing planning systems and justify the need for incremental proce...

This study examines how strategic manufacturing planning processes vary systematically with respect to planning characteristics, and how the planning process appears to evolve over time. Through an empirical evaluation of over 200 U.S. manufacturers, we document the existence of four strategic manufacturing planning groups. These groups vary with respect to the degrees of ‘‘rationality’’ and ‘‘...

This paper is in search of designing the cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs) under dynamic and flexible environment. CM is proper for small-to-medium lot production environment that helps the companies to produce variable kind of productions with at least scraps. The most important benefits of CM are decline in material handling, reduction in work-in-process, reduction in set-up time, increme...