Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control

With global markets and global competition, pressures are placed on manufacturing organizations to compress order fulfillment times, meet delivery commitments consistently and also maintain efficiency in operations to address cost issues. This chapter argues for a process perspective on planning, sc...

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Main Author: MacCarthy, Bart L.
Other Authors: Herrmann, Jeffrey W.
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Published: Springer 2006
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/915/
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description With global markets and global competition, pressures are placed on manufacturing organizations to compress order fulfillment times, meet delivery commitments consistently and also maintain efficiency in operations to address cost issues. This chapter argues for a process perspective on planning, scheduling and control that integrates organizational planning structures, information systems as well as human decision makers. The chapter begins with a reconsideration of the gap between theory and practice, in particular for classical scheduling theory and hierarchical production planning and control. A number of the key studies of industrial practice are then described and their implications noted. A recent model of scheduling practice derived from a detailed study of real businesses is described. Socio-technical concepts are then introduced and their implications for the design and management of planning, scheduling and control systems are discussed. The implications of adopting a process perspective are noted along with insights from knowledge management. An overview is presented of a methodology for the (re-)design of planning, scheduling and control systems that integrates organizational, system and human perspectives. The most important messages from the chapter are then summarized.
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spelling nottingham-9152020-05-04T20:30:05Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/915/ Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control MacCarthy, Bart L. With global markets and global competition, pressures are placed on manufacturing organizations to compress order fulfillment times, meet delivery commitments consistently and also maintain efficiency in operations to address cost issues. This chapter argues for a process perspective on planning, scheduling and control that integrates organizational planning structures, information systems as well as human decision makers. The chapter begins with a reconsideration of the gap between theory and practice, in particular for classical scheduling theory and hierarchical production planning and control. A number of the key studies of industrial practice are then described and their implications noted. A recent model of scheduling practice derived from a detailed study of real businesses is described. Socio-technical concepts are then introduced and their implications for the design and management of planning, scheduling and control systems are discussed. The implications of adopting a process perspective are noted along with insights from knowledge management. An overview is presented of a methodology for the (re-)design of planning, scheduling and control systems that integrates organizational, system and human perspectives. The most important messages from the chapter are then summarized. Springer Herrmann, Jeffrey W. 2006 Book Section PeerReviewed MacCarthy, Bart L. (2006) Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control. In: Handbook of Production Scheduling. International Series in Operations Research and Management Science . Springer, New York, 59 -90. ISBN 978-0-387-33115-7 Planning Scheduling Production Human Factors Organizationl issues http://www.springer.com/business/production/book/978-0-387-33115-7
spellingShingle Planning
Scheduling
Production
Human Factors
Organizationl issues
MacCarthy, Bart L.
Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control
title Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control
title_full Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control
title_fullStr Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control
title_full_unstemmed Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control
title_short Organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control
title_sort organizational, systems and human issues in production planning, scheduling and control
topic Planning
Scheduling
Production
Human Factors
Organizationl issues
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/915/
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