... information on the available production capacities through an integrated information system, for instance, clearly undermines one power source of production stakeholders. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Production management Sales force Manufacturing resource planning Enterprise...

...Brent Snider © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Canada Critical success factors Manufacturing resource planning Small- to medium-sized enterprises Article Type: 2010 Awards for Excellence From: International Journal of Operations & Production Management...

... itself. For example, Aggarwal (1997) identifies a number of flexibility action plans that span the value chain. An abbreviated list is given below: Flexible manufacturing systems Manufacturing resource planning Manufacturing flexibility, defined as the ability to change or to react...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Manufacturing resource planning Small to medium‐sized enterprises Critical success factors Canada Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are of critical importance to many economies. Firms with less than 500 employees provided 51 per cent of all employment...

... and students, as well as researchers. Cecil Bozarth can be contacted at: Cecil_Bozarth@ncsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Manufacturing resource planning Management information systems Operations management The objective of this paper is two‐fold. First, we use a case...

... to establish a reliable and valid instrument for measuring ERP ultimate‐user satisfaction. Jen‐Her Wu can be contacted at: jhwu@mis.nsysu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Manufacturing resource planning Customer satisfaction Measuring instruments Measurement, testing...

...@bus.emory.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Manufacturing resource planning Managers Culture United States of America China Existing research into enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption and implementation has suggested that national culture can have a significant impact...

... that the sample includes a substantial number of world‐class plants today. Corporate strategy Manufacturing industries Manufacturing resource planning Much of the literature and studies addressing manufacturing strategy and world‐class manufacturing (WCM) have been concentrated on understanding...

... Purchasing Manufacturing resource planning The process characteristic of the system implementation is equally relevant. At this point it is relatively well understood that the choices of implementation strategies available to firms adopting ERP systems constitute a spectrum bounded by the sole use...

...Neil Towers; Alan Knibbs; Nikos Panagiotopoulos Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the supply and productivity improvements derived from implementing manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) practices. Design/methodology/approach The approach is a case study in a Greek...

... – characteristics that make the procedure practical for managers. Manufacturing resource planning Operations management Research Case studies The literature on operations strategy is, a great deal, more abundant as it describes what operations strategy is and what its benefits are and then how...

...‐to‐schedule. In this environment the customer orders are small and frequent, in many cases call‐offs from a delivery schedule. Typical throughput times are very short, and the manufacturing is carried out in some form of line layout. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Manufacturing resource planning...

... Effectiveness Manufacturing resource planning Advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) represents a wide variety of modern computer‐based systems devoted to the improvement of manufacturing operations and thereby enhancement of firm competitiveness. AMT, in its varying forms, has been credited...