Data in Production and Supply Chain Planning

Laura Dionne and Karl G. Kempf ()
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Karl G. Kempf: Intel Corporation

Chapter Chapter 8 in Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise, 2011, pp 167-184 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Charles Babbage, one of the inventors of mechanical engines capable of calculation, commented (Babbage 1864): “On two occasions I have been asked, – ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” Roughly 100 years later in the age of electronic engines capable of calculation, an IBM instructor in New York named George Fuechsel captured this idea more succinctly when he used “garbage in, garbage out” as a training mantra.

Keywords: Supply Chain; Data Element; Corporate Culture; Production Planner; Introductory Chapter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6485-4_8

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