Real life experiences were used to put together this list of steps to be followed during the planning and implementation of a formal MRP II planning and control system. Project management and organizational skills are critical to the success of the project. The implementation plan is carried out by a project team and subcommittees with the support of top management. Cost/benefit analysis and pe...

This paper outlines work done by the authors in developing a production management expert system in TIRS, The Integrated Reasoning Shell. The expert system addresses the complex nature of decision making in production planning and scheduling. The decision making process is structured in a hierarchical form. Much of the knowledge encoded relates to modern thinking with regard to production vis-à...

Due to the pressure of rising costs and an increase in customer orientation, IT-service providers are forced to professionalize their operations (IT-Production). Using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems common in real goods production allows to take advantage of planning functions and integrated data management. Since the production planning of IT-Production cannot be addressed by stand...

OBJECTIVE Multidrug resistance is a cause of treatment failure in patients with malignant lymphoma; however, the frequency and clinical relevance of multidrug resistance protein expression are unclear. The present study aimed to investigate expression of the most common multidrug resistance proteins in a group of lymphoma patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 44 previously untreat...

To be successful in companies, a production planning and control (PPC) concept should fit to the production environment. Essential elements of the concept should correspond with the characteristics of the production system. For classical concepts such as MRP these elements have become common sense. For example BOMexplosion and constant lead times make MRP known to perform best in environments w...

ERP implementation projects normally involve a single vendor providing the packaged software for the entire system. Although most companies follow this practice, a significant number of firms employ an alternate strategy of “best of breed” ERP. This strategy involves selecting software that best matches the current or desired business practices of the company from a variety of vendors. This str...

Modern large companies have distributed infrastructure that brings some of new problems to be solved. Main typical tasks to be mastered are: distributed storage, transport, production planning, etc. To solve these problems, the companies base their decision procedures on integrated management systems. Such a solution makes all strategic decisions easier and more pertinent because all required i...

Companies must develop and maintain a high degree of coherence among competitive priorities, order-winning criteria, and improvement activities due to the competitive market and customer pressures. This paper presents findings of an empirical survey on manufacturing strategies implementation in new industrialized countries (NICs). Data were obtained from 68 and 54 automotive manufacturing compa...

In this paper we describe how a market-leading ERP system can be used to demonstrate theoretical knowledge of Enterprise Systems. Students of business administration with a focus on information systems are taught theoretical backgrounds about modeling, technical architectures, development, and conceptions of Enterprise Systems. They know about business processes like production planning or mate...