Deriving research agendas for manufacturing and logistics systems: A methodology

Maurice Bonney and Mohamad Y. Jaber

International Journal of Production Economics, 2014, vol. 157, issue C, 49-61

Abstract: The paper describes a methodology to help systems analysts identify and prioritise an organisation's manufacturing and logistics problems and determine the changes that the organisation needs. The problems and associated investigations form the research and implementation agendas. The methodology considers the manufacturing system functions of a company to be part of a concurrent enterprise. It then uses the concurrent enterprise model in conjunction with an unconstrained Activity Matrix (AM), which shows the activities of the system that converts physical inputs and plans (stated or implied) into the important variables and system performance measures which are called attributes.

Keywords: Research agenda; Structured analysis; Concurrent enterprise; Logistics; Production planning and control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.12.007

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