TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing the impact of integrating a MES to an ERP system
AU - Moon, Young B.
AU - Bahl, Varun
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Despite the claims by software vendors on positive values of an integrated MES and ERP system, there has been no systematic study conducted to assess and evaluate the impact of such an integrated system on shop floor operations. This paper presents a simulation study to evaluate the impact of the MES integration with the ERP system on production lead times. First, we describe a methodology of Using a discrete event computer simulation to address an inherent problem of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system of handling uncertainties and unexpected events. Then, simulation study results comparing the performances of a manufacturing system with MES and a manufacturing system without MES are presented. The evaluation metric used in this simulation is the production lead time. However, the results obtained in this study can be expanded to more general situations with different evaluation metrics.
AB - Despite the claims by software vendors on positive values of an integrated MES and ERP system, there has been no systematic study conducted to assess and evaluate the impact of such an integrated system on shop floor operations. This paper presents a simulation study to evaluate the impact of the MES integration with the ERP system on production lead times. First, we describe a methodology of Using a discrete event computer simulation to address an inherent problem of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system of handling uncertainties and unexpected events. Then, simulation study results comparing the performances of a manufacturing system with MES and a manufacturing system without MES are presented. The evaluation metric used in this simulation is the production lead time. However, the results obtained in this study can be expanded to more general situations with different evaluation metrics.
KW - Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
KW - Manufacturing execution systems (MES)
KW - Production lead time determination
KW - Simulation
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649249240
SN - 9728865198
SN - 9789728865191
T3 - ICEIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
SP - 300
EP - 304
BT - ICEIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
T2 - 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2005
Y2 - 25 May 2005 through 28 May 2005
ER -