Title: Development and evaluation of a production planning, scheduling and control re-design Toolkit

Authors: Jane Guinery, King Wang, Bart MacCarthy

Addresses: Operations Management Division, Nottingham University Business School, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK. ' Operations Management Division, Nottingham University Business School, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK. ' Operations Management Division, Nottingham University Business School, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK

Abstract: Effective production planning, scheduling and control (PSC) is critical to any manufacturing business competing through responsive order fulfilment. With the current drive for businesses and supply chains to be responsive, a large scale empirical study was conducted with four cross-sector industrial partners to investigate the reality of PSC practice and to establish ways to improve it. From this in-depth analysis, design rules were established and used to develop a Toolkit to assist businesses in re-designing their PSC organisation and practice. This article describes the research and Toolkit development. It also evaluates the Toolkit and makes recommendations for future research.

Keywords: coordination; decision making; knowledge management; KM; organisation design; production planning; production control; responsiveness; toolkit; scheduling; control re-design; SCM; supply chain management; cross-sector industrial partners; design rules; R&D; research and development; industrial engineering; systems engineering; responsive manufacturing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2010.031960

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2010 Vol.5 No.3, pp.251 - 267

Published online: 03 Mar 2010 *

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