Engineering change order processing in ERP systems: an integrated reactive model Online publication date: Fri, 01-Oct-2010
by Benoit Saenz De Ugarte, Adnene Hajji, Robert Pellerin, Abdelhakim Artiba
European J. of Industrial Engineering (EJIE), Vol. 4, No. 4, 2010
Abstract: Manufacturing execution system (MES) provides a common and single system to support most manufacturing processes. However, MES applications do not address all of the manufacturing execution processes required to replenish the supply chain while dynamically responding to unpredicted change and fall short of adding decision-making tools capabilities. To fill this gap, we propose a generic manufacturing execution platform that provides real-time decision support in reaction to disturbing events. More precisely, we demonstrate how this approach can support engineering change order processing in ERP-controlled environments. Our demonstrative example based on a real scenario in the aerospace industry illustrates how a genetic algorithm and a real-time discrete event simulation model can be integrated within an ERP and MES system platform. [Received 26 September 2008; Revised 23 April 2009; Accepted 6 December 2009]
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the European J. of Industrial Engineering (EJIE):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:
Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.
If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com
Our Blog 
Follow us on Twitter 
Visit us on Facebook