The planning and control of the intra-company and extra-company logistics for the plastics industry pose a great challenge for ERP systems. Characteristics of ERP Usage in the Plastics Industry Production procedures like die casting or extrusion are widely used in the industry. Among others, the distinctive characteristics are:
- a pronouced process character with batch production,
- coupled production,
- a very distinctive tool management (basic tools, moulds) considering availabilities and idle times as well as
- an intensive use of machine data acquisition (MDA) for in-process quality management (e.g.
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A document’s lifecycle is mirrored by the business processes in which it is used. Business processes create, change and delete documents. Documents, on the other hand, trigger business processes and control them. A comprehensive ECM / DMS software follows and supports the complete document lifecycle from its creation to its defined destruction. dms-prozesseDepending on the individual task at hand, it can also be sensible and helpful to support only specific phases of the document lifecycle by specialist software solutions, like e.g.:…
The age of the ERP software used is still by far the most dominating trigger for the implementation of a new ERP. However, this aspect has lost some of its relevance in the course of the last 10 years or so (since 2000 -20.7 %, finishing at 31.2% in 2012). Instead, the implementation of a new ERP Software is increasingly triggered by the companies‘ dissatisfaction with their ERP software or the ERP vendor (2010: 17.3%, increase: 8.1%). This aspect is especially relevant for smaller companies and for service providers and comes in second in the top 10 triggers for ERP projects.…