Emancipating instances from the tyranny of classes in information modeling
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Material Requirements Planning: The New Way of Life in Production and Inventory Management
Material Requirements Planning: The New Way of Life in Production and Inventory Management
Managing traceability information in manufacture
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Position paper: Roadmap to tracking based business and intelligent products
Computers in Industry
Supply chain ontology: Review, analysis and synthesis
Computers in Industry
Item dwell time in project inventories: A field experiment
Computers in Industry
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Supply chain product visibility: Methods, systems and impacts
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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The paper uses a case example to present a novel way of building enterprise information systems. The objective is to bring forth the benefits of an item-centric systems design in environments that require real-time material visibility, such as in logistics service provision. The methodology employed is case study and metadata modeling. Managers of SE Makinen, a Finnish car distribution company were interviewed on the implementation and operation of their award winning enterprise system. The case example was then analyzed using a generic metadata model of item-centric systems. The main finding of the paper is that introducing an item-centric model facilitated responsive service in the distribution of automobiles. The practical implications are that when starting to develop a new enterprise system, managers in logistics services should consider an item-centric design solution as an option to the conventional location-based design for enterprise-data models.