Strategic ERP Extension and Use provides practitioners and researchers with a window into the cutting edge strategic extension and the use of modern ERP systems, focusing on current use of ERP system implementation as well as outlooks for future developments for operations and strategic...

Although the topic of manufacturing performance measurement has recently attracted considerable interest, little has been done to enumerate or classify the measures that exist. Lists 125 different strategy‐related measures that were found through a survey of accounting, manufacturing and...

The selection of an appropriate enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution remains a complicated task. Since the fundamental role of an ERP solution is to support corporate operations, a key consideration is its alignment with the process requirements of the firm. This work is an investigation...

The increase in the number of high-profile product recalls in recent years highlights the issue of ensuring product safety in global supply chains. Although the financial effect of a product recall announcement has been previously investigated from the perspective of manufacturers, it has not...

The retrieval of items from storage is a chore faced by virtually every business concern. Walk/ride and pick systems are a popular method for performing this chore in many applications. When retrieval requests consist of multiple items, order pickers must travel to numerous storage locations to...

This note provides a brief comparison between a three-dimensional layout planning system recently described in Management Science (Johnson [Johnson, Roger V. 1982. SPACECRAFT for multi-floor layout planning. Management Sci. 28 (4, April) 407--417.]) and a similar system developed earlier (Cinar...

This paper describes a new system capable of solving detailed facility layout problems. The system allows the consideration of multiple objectives on the layout solution. Criteria related to weighted distance between interacting layout elements, the structure of the final layout design, the use...