Technical and industrial issues of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems

Authors:
Hans-Henrik Hvolby;Kenn Steger-Jensen
Affiliations:
Centre for Logistics, Aalborg University, Denmark and University of South Australia, Australia;Centre for Logistics, Aalborg University, Denmark
Venue:
Computers in Industry
Year:
2010

Citing 6
Cited 2

A branch-and-cut algorithm for the resolution of large-scale symmetric traveling salesman problems

SIAM Review
Mixed 0-1 programming by lift-and-project in a branch-and-cut framework

Management Science
The Kellogg Company Optimizes Production, Inventory, and Distribution

Interfaces
Evolution of ERP Systems

Proceedings of the International Conference of the Manufacturing Value-Chain on Strategic Management of the Manufacturing Value Chain
Branch-And-Price: Column Generation for Solving Huge Integer Programs

Operations Research
Implementing a Distribution-Network Decision-Support System at Pfizer/Warner-Lambert

Interfaces

Enterprise Resource Planning systems: An assessment of applicability to Make-To-Order companies

Computers in Industry
Fast assessment of production makespan using aggregate technical data

Computers in Industry

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The basic functionality of planning and scheduling in Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems, especially constraint-based planning and optimization, is analyzed and discussed by use of theory and examples including how objectives, decision-variables and penalty factors are handled. The paper concludes that the planning functionality is radically improved compared to MRP and ERP, but stresses how essential it is for a good outcome that the user is familiar with the core APS functionality to enable a careful setup of the many (conflicting) planning parameters. The research presented in this paper is funded by the EU Union via the EmpoSME and ValuePole projects while the APS descriptions and tests are based on Oracle's Advanced Planning and Scheduling software.