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Part 1 |
Introduction and background. We discuss the basic
concepts of planning, programming, quality, and the
natural evolution of the supply chain. From functional
silos up to the value added chain. We try to understand
the Compliance idea beginning from its application in
the field of medicine.
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Part 2 |
Understand what happened historically and what is happening
today in the area of the planning function in manufacturing
companies and the formal and informal systems that supports
it. Here we analyze each organizational area with its
particular objectives regarding planning in order to understand
the “internal chain” as well as the motivations
and contradictions around the planning function. For better
understanding, real cases are presented in order to learn
what to do. But not all of these cases are examples of
successful planning. Mistakes and failure are great sources
of learning of what not to do. |
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Analyze
trends and possibilities of new technologies. Part
3 begins with present-day tools of Information Technology
(IT). We discuss what has happened to planning functions
within the framework of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
systems, why planning functions are not much used, and
why spreadsheets are still the major support system. Then,
we review what new concepts and trends have been proposed
for Supply Chain Management (SCM) and collaborative planning.
Here, new risks and constraints hidden in these technologies
are considered. These risks and constraints are serious
dangers unless an equally serious change takes place in
the planning culture and in the quality of a company’s
basic system. Also real world examples are included. |
Part
4 |
Introduce
the concept of Compliance as a set of common-sense
rules that allow the articulation of a control model for
doing quality planning throughout the entire organization
no matter what information systems are used. Part 4 covers
some rules that have already been applied, but in an isolated
way without taking into account the impact an event may
have in operational profits, in part or in all the supply
chain management. In order to avoid having our discussion
remain on a merely theoretical plane, concrete steps for
applying Compliance on its three levels are proposed:
manual, automatic and intelligent. |
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