When the shop floor does not operate according to the production plan, it is common to hear people say, "We need a more ...

When you see "Production" or "PP" listed in SAP project descriptions, it can be confusing whether you only need to be able to ...

If you’re in manufacturing, you know that clarity equals control. Manufacturing control becomes difficult when production runs on spreadsheets, paper job cards, whiteboards, manual updates and memory.

Excerpted from Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): Optimal Design, Planning, and Deployment by Heiko Meyer, Franz Fuchs, and Klaus Thiel (McGraw-Hill; 2009), with permission from McGraw-Hill.

Manufacturing involves many processes and potential for mishaps. Carrying out production planning can help supply chain leaders ensure that their company's operations run as smoothly as possible.

Operations planning logistics is an outline of an organization's approaches, priorities, sequences and resource facilitation for conducting the day-to-day activities. The operations planning aspect ...

Fulfilling just one customer’s PC order can launch a series of complex tasks across multiple production lines. Scale that up to 690,000 orders a year—the tally hit at LCFC (HeFei) Electronics ...