ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: If manufacturing companies do not understand, and then manage the opportunities offered by electronic communication, they will be overwhelmed by them...

MORE INFO: The electronic plughole If manufacturing companies do not understand, and then manage the opportunities offered by electronic communication, they will be overwhelmed by them... Manufacturing planning and scheduling is a business process which must not be conducted mechanistically, and without consideration of the key business drivers which (should) shape the complete spectrum of the firm’s business processes. Enhanced awareness of a firm’s planning and scheduling needs will become ever more important if it is to prosper from supply chain relationships; first and second tier supply chain members will require their suppliers to have ‘suitable’ planning and scheduling systems to support the supply arrangements. In turn, the supplying firm must understand how its planning and scheduling system, controls its response to customers and how this affects the operation of the business...

PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management

Page number: Page: 7 Word count: Words: approx. 1500

Vol 26 - No 03 - April 2000

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