Linking manufacturing strategy to the design of a customized hybrid production control system

Manufacturing planning and control approaches: market alignment and performance

“…Karmarkar (1989) who view this as one form of a hybrid system. Other types of hybrid systems are discussed in, for example Maes and Van Wassenhove (1991), Bhattacharya and Coleman (1994), and Olhager and Wikner (2000), supporting the existence of other types of combinations for, on the one hand, material planning and on the other hand execution and control of operations. Thus, the use of a certain approach or system at one level does not mean that the corresponding type of approach or system will necessarily be used at another level.…”

The impact of manufacturing strategy on the design of production management systems: An exploratory study

“…The design decisions made by the four companies in this study seem to be captured well by the approach in Bhattacharya and Coleman (1994). This approach proved to be useful in practice, providing the managers of the participating frrms with a comprehensive insight into the system structures and an understanding of some factors that influence the system design decisions.…”

“…Vollmann, et al, (1992) call them front-end, engine, and back-end. Bhattacharya and Coleman (1994) refer to them as "phases", emphasizing that the design of a production management system is an iterative process rather than a standardized set of yes-orno decisions. In the following, the latter approach is described in some detail as a basis for the case discussions.…”

“…In practice, the links between the three levels may exclude some possibilities. Bhattacharya and Coleman (1994) aim at identifying the decision variables that influence the design of the production control. They introduce a tetrahedron to describe the manufacturing environment in terms of market, product and process complexity.…”

“…It also describes the link to the manufacturing environment and strategy in terms of market, product and process complexity. Bhattacharya and Coleman (1994) have been rearranged to facilitate the identification of matches or mismatches between manufacturing strategy and design issues. For example, if market, product and process characteristics all have low complexity, the choice would typically be a make-to-stock (MTS), rate-based and JIT/pull system, focusing on the left hand side of the decision variable levels.…”