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Enterprise Resource Planning

notes introduction

In enterprises, row materials moves through a process and transformed into usable products.
Similarly, in an information system, data are supplied to a system (input), it is proceed and
transformed into information (output). Through the ERP, technology transforms the data that are
available in the enterprise in usable information.

4.1 manufacturing information systems

Manufacturing information systems support the production/operations function, which
includes all activities concerned with the planning and control of the processes that produce
goods or services. The production/operations function is concerned with the management of the
operational systems of all business firms. Information systems used for operations management
and transaction processing support all firms that must plan, monitor, and control inventories,
purchases, and the flow of goods and services.
Information system helps in these manufacturing activities:

1. Plant activity scheduling
2. Material requirement assessment
3. Material reallocation between orders
4. Dynamic inventory management

5. Grouping work orders by “characteristics”
6. Resource qualification for task completion

computer-integrated manufacturing (cim)

Computer-based manufacturing information systems use several major techniques to support
computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM). CIM is an overall concept that stresses that the goals
of computer use in factory automation must be to:
1. Simplify: (re-engineer) production processes, product designs, and factory organization as
a vital foundation to automation and integration.

2. Automate: Production processes and the business functions that support them with
computers, machines, and robots.
3. Integrate: All production and support processes using computers, telecommunications
networks, and other information technologies.

Overall goal of CIM

Is to create flexible, agile, manufacturing processes that efficiently produce products of the
highest quality. Thus, CIM supports the concepts of:

1. Flexible manufacturing systems
2. Agile manufacturing
3. Total quality management

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