Applicability of ERP for Production Network Planning: A Case Study

Nehzati, Taravatsadat; Romsdal, Anita; Dreyer, Heidi Carin; Strandhagen, Jan Ola

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44739-0_71

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“…Staff personnel from different organizational units, levels and sites in the company have been involved in the data collection. Data has been collected over a long time horizon with two doctoral projects as the main source, one that is finished [10,11] and one that is ongoing [12,13]. The data analysis is qualitative and based on a structured discussion of the collected data in relation to the factors identified in the literature study.…”

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Exploring Responsiveness and Flexibility in Multisite Production Environments: The Case of Norwegian Dairy Production

Nehzati

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Industrialized production most often takes place in large-scale systems consisting of multisite units, which are managed with central strategic planning, and decision units and local management teams in order to exploit capacity and scale benefits. Manufacturers are searching for new strategies that will increase their capability to be responsive to market needs while remaining competitive according to cost, time and service level criteria. Responsiveness has mainly been studied in one-dimensional production and supply chain environments, single production sites or the supply chain of a single production site. We argue in this paper that in the fast-moving consumer sector (FMCS) within a multisite production environment, where there is a need for coordination, responsiveness has to be further analyzed. We have explored responsiveness and flexibility in such an environment in order to identify the factors that require and enable responsiveness in a production networks system, and identified a number of factors, which are analyzed in the form of a case study.

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Exploring Responsiveness and Flexibility in Multisite Production Environments: The Case of Norwegian Dairy Production

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Dreyer

Strandhagen

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“…Therefore, not only tactical production plans, but also short-term and technical planning operations, are based on forecasts [62]. The main rationale for this is that in many cases, the production lead time is longer than customer order lead time expectations.…”

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Production network flexibility: case study of Norwegian diary production network

2015

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By increasing advances in the production networks planning, understanding of relations and dynamics of production networks is gaining more attention in order to use all network capabilities. To achieve this understanding, it is not only important to have a good understanding of individual firm's manufacturing flexibility next to supply chain flexibility, but also to consider the internal (among production network's facilities) and external (other tiers of supply chain) relationships in a production network. Studying the production network's flexibility dimensions facilitates the effective use of the synergy of cooperation in the network. On other words, the potential in the network structure cannot be exploited unless the planning and control of network consider the available flexibility of network and operationalize the opportunities which arise. This paper identifies different dimensions of flexibility in a production network and describes how they can support firms in responding to customers' needs. This research employs exploratory and descriptive approaches and uses a single case study of Norwegian diary to capture the dynamics of production networks. Three product categories with different network characteristics are selected, and the identified network flexibility dimensions are investigated for these products. The status of case company under each flexibility dimension is presented and discussed.

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