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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The manufacturing supply chain has universally adopted Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, also known as Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) systems as the primary business system...

MORE INFO: Advanced Planning and Scheduling in the online world - APS and B2B The manufacturing supply chain has universally adopted Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, also known as Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) systems as the primary business system... The origins of such systems have their design rooted in a supply chain that had different characteristics to that of today.Created decades ago, these systems based their structure on factories that took discrete sales orders from many customers and operated n a world where dual sourcing of items was seen as a way of maintaining competitive pricing from suppliers. Switching production from one source to another or sharing volumes of the same item and varying those volumes between the two, were other ways of managing the supply chain and maintaining continuity of supply.This inherent unpredictability from customers required sales order processing systems that could cope with fluctuating demand and different pricing structures based on volumes...

PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management

Page number: Page: 7 Word count: Words: approx. 2000

Vol 27 - No 04 - May 2001

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