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Misconceptions on managing inventory in a digital-driven world
Published in Stuart M. Rosenberg, The Digitalization of the 21st Century Supply Chain, 2020
Managing your warehouse with spreadsheets will lead you to manage a big library too along with your inventory. Replacing old books with software is a necessity for proper warehouse management. An inventory management software saves time and resources. It also saves you from keeping local copies. Software stores your data on a centralized system, making it easy for you to save your data and share it with colleagues and vendors. With this system, you can track and search past records with a few clicks.
EOS: enterprise operating systems
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2018
Joseph Rahme Youssef, Gregory Zacharewicz, David Chen, François Vernadat
As shown in Figure 1, business users and the three types of resources are outside the EOS. They are connected to the EOS to send and receive commands (or orders) and information (e.g. data, feedbacks, statuses ...). To perform enterprise operations (i.e. to design and manufacture required products from customers) in a coordinated way, the resources must be commanded and controlled by business managers via the EOS:Human type resources are human actors, operations of whom can be monitored and controlled by the EOS. They are commercial and purchasing agents, product designers, business developers, production managers, shop floor operators, etc.IT-type resources are computer and communications systems including data processing, storage devices and enterprise applications such as, for examples, MRPII planning software, shop floor scheduling software, CAD system, sale forecasting software, CRM software, inventory management software, etc.Machine type resources are production or transport machines, technical devices, pieces of equipment and tools containing one or more parts that use energy to transform raw material to products such as, for examples, automated/manual transfer lines, conventional and NC machines, robots, etc.
Determinants of information and digital technology implementation for smart manufacturing
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2019
Manufacturing industry is undergoing a digital transformation, commonly referred to as Industry 4.0, which is driven by the emergence of advanced Information and Digital Technologies (IDT). Industry 4.0 is the digital transformation of industrial markets within which smart manufacturing fits (Zhong et al. 2017). Therefore, the application of IDT to every facet of manufacturing is a strategic priority for contemporary manufacturing firms (Lasi et al. 2014). Adoption1 of generic IDT by manufacturers is a well-studied research area within the operations management and research community. Yet, the way previous scholars have defined digitalisation among manufacturers tends to impose significant limitations when it comes to generalising the findings of existing studies to the contemporary firms that peruse manufacturing digitalisation in the Industry 4.0 era. The review of IDT institutionalisation background reveals that majority of scholars have defined digitalisation in terms of institutionalisation of generic IDT such as word processing, basic computer hardware, Internet, social media, spreadsheets, and virtual meeting (Giotopoulos et al. 2017). Digitalisation in the manufacturing context also refers to the application of e-commerce tools such as website, electronic data interchange, and electronic fund transfer systems (Ghobakhloo, Arias-Aranda, and Benitez-Amado 2011). The adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies such as inventory management software, computer-aided design, production scheduling applications (Tang and Ghobakhloo 2013), or even Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is another type of manufacturing digitalisation commonly addressed within the literature (Bi, Da Xu, and Wang 2014).