At the foundation of today's leading-edge manufacturing companies is a common vision for virtual, distributed enterprise in an agile environment where organizations can swiftly and cost-effectively bring products from concept to production - and respond dynamically to changes in customer and market requirements. Totally Integrated Enterprises: A Framework and Methodology for Business and Technology Improvement provides a framework and a methodology for understanding and mapping current enterprise configurations as well as for designing the revised architecture needed for the totally integrated enterprise. It also helps you select the MRPII, MES, APS, SCM, or ERP software most appropriate for your needs and for achieving total enterprise integration.
MRPII, MES, APS, SCM, and ERP. Without a strategic direction it is just alphabet soup. How do you determine what is best for your organization? Which software system is most appropriate to your needs? Courses, classes, seminars, and experts galore are available to help you learn and implement the fine details of every value-add, cost-saving, customer-pleasing, quality-improving, buzzword-compliant business initiative you have ever heard of, and many that you haven't.
What has been missing is a way to tie them together. Until now. Totally Integrated Enterprises: A Framework and a Methodology for Business and Technology Improvement gives you a high-level enterprise architecture that makes the implementation of best practices and technologies - both existing and emergent - manageable.
This book shows you how to:Improve your product and process integration, as well as develop and deliver new products within a virtual enterprise
Incorporate business strategies and functions to drive product design and manufacturing requirements, operations, and post-production activities
Integrate designers, manufacturers, and suppliers to operate as a virtual enterprise
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- ISBN10 1420032038
- ISBN13 9781420032031
- Publish Date 22 June 2001
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 20 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint CRC Press Inc
- Format eBook
- Pages 224
- Language English