A Study of Knowledge-Based Simulation for Enterprise Resources Planning

2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 241-249
Author(s):  
Chi Fai Cheung ◽  
Sui Hei Fung ◽  
S. K. Kwok ◽  
Wing Bun Lee ◽  
Burly Tan

The conventional way of using the Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) applications is inadequate for the highly dynamic, complex and demanding business environment. The efficient use of the ERP system relies heavily on the know-how, experience and quality of the users. Since the knowledge of operating ERP system is difficult to be acquired, shared and diffused among the users, it takes time and money to train well-experienced users. As a result, this paper presents a framework of Knowledge-based Simulation System for Enterprise Resources Planning named KBSimERP. The KBSimERP provides an integrated learning environment for achieving three perspectives, which includes the knowledge acquisition, knowledge diffusion and performance measurement perspectives respectively. Hence, a prototype of the KBSimERP is built for production planning and control, and the performance of the system is preliminarily evaluated. Satisfactory results are obtained.

INFO ARTHA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ali Tafriji Biswan ◽  
Priscilla Oktiva Rossari ◽  
Fajar Alhadi Alhadi

ABSTRACTBudgeting is an important tool used by the management in carrying out the functions of planning and control, no exception to public sector organizations and government. The Indonesian government continues to implement the best practices of budgeting, one of which is through the implementation of performance-based budgeting.In a performance-based budgeting, the budget is prepared by formulating outputs or outcomes to be achieved. This formulation is done by the respective ministries/agencies in accordance with the functions of their respective organizations. All information related to the performance of then integrated into a document Work Plan and Budget-Ministry/Agency (RKA-K/L) as the basis of discussion of the budget document by the legislative board. However, in practice, ministries/agencies have not been able to compile performance information appropriately. The quality of outputs and outcomes compiled considered not in accordance with the strategic objectives and functions of the ministries/agencies concerned. Another problem related to budgeting is improper planning which led to the absorption of current year's budget to less than optimal. Through this paper, researchers will present problems related to the issue of the budget that comes from the weakness of the architecture and performance information on the ministries/agencies. Responding to the challenges of the need of better budgeting, the government began compiling Arsitektur dan Informasi Kinerja (ADIK) to improve the application of performance-based budgeting approach before. ADIK implementation on Financial Training Center of Makassar gives an overview effort of applying this new architecture. It is expected the new budgeting architecture implemented during Fiscal Year 2016 increases the optimum benefits. Keywords: budgeting, performance-based budgeting, performance information, ADIK. ABSTRAKPenganggaran merupakan alat penting bagi manajemen organisasi, tidak  terkecuali organisasi sektor publik, dalam menjalankan fungsi perencanaan dan pengendalian. Instansi pemerintah terus berupaya mengelola praktik terbaik penganggaran, salah satunya adalah melalui penganggaran berbasis kinerja (PBK).Dalam PBK, anggaran disusun dengan merumuskan output atau outcome yang hendak dicapai. Perumusan ini dilakukan oleh kementerian/lembaga sesuai dengan fungsi organisasi masing-masing. Seluruh informasi kinerja diintegrasikan menjadi sebuah dokumen Rencana Kerja dan Anggaran Kementerian Negara/Lembaga (RKA- K/L) sebagai dokumen dasar pembahasan anggaran dengan badan legislatif. Namun pada praktiknya, kementerian/lembaga belum mampu menyusun informasi kinerja dengan tepat. Kualitas output dan outcome yang disusun belum sepenuhnya sesuai dengan sasaran strategis dan fungsi kementerian/lembaga yang bersangkutan. Masalah itu terkait erat dengan perencanaan yang kurang baik sehingga penyerapan anggaran kurang tepat sasaran.Melalui tulisan ini, dipaparkan isu permasalahan terkait anggaran yang bersumber dari lemahnya bangunan informasi kinerja pada kementerian/lembaga. Menjawab tantangan penganggaran yang lebih baik, pemerintah mulai menyusun Arsitektur dan Informasi Kinerja (ADIK) untuk mempertajam penerapan PBK. Penerapan ADIK pada Balai Diklat Keuangan Makassar memberikan gambaran upaya penerapan arsitektur yang baru ini. Diharapkan arsitektur penganggaran baru yang diimplementasikan mulai Tahun Anggaran 2016 ini meningkatkan manfaat penganggaran yang lebih optimal. Kata kunci: anggaran, PBK, informasi kinerja, ADIK.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Oltra-Badenes ◽  
Hermenegildo Gil-Gomez ◽  
Vicente Guerola-Navarro ◽  
Pau Vicedo

In today’s business environment, different factors make product return and product recovery increasingly more important in order to recover value and increase the company’s profitability. In such an environment, where sustainability concerns and awareness of environmental responsibility in industrial production has considerably grown, reverse logistics (RL) becomes more relevant and, thus, its correct management using suitable information systems (IS) is fundamental. Nevertheless, today’s IS in general, and in Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) in particular, are developed based on conventional logistic processes that do not contemplate the specific characteristics of RL. The main objective of this work is to analyze the functional requirements of an IS to manage product recovery processes that serve as a guide to develop a suitable ERP for RL. The research methodology has been conducted with a qualitative approach, through which the main specific requirements that an IS must meet to manage RL have been stablished, and a data model for the development of solutions to the requirements identified in an ERP system has been proposed. For the development in the ERP it is recommended to start with the requirement of RBOM (Reverse Bill Of Materials) management, since it is the most complex development and has a greater relationship with the rest.


2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (04) ◽  
pp. 221-227
Author(s):  
T. Donhauser ◽  
L. Baier ◽  
T. Ebersbach ◽  
J. Franke ◽  
P. Schuderer

Die Kalksandsteinherstellung weist aufgrund prozesstechnisch und zeitlich divergierender Teilprozesse einen hohen Planungs- sowie Steuerungsaufwand auf. Durch Einsatz eines simulationsgestützten Optimierungsverfahrens kann diese Komplexität bewältigt werden. Um bei hoher Lösungsqualität eine Laufzeit zu erreichen, die einen operativen Einsatz des Verfahrens gestattet, wird auf Basis einer vorangegangenen Studie ein Dekompositionsansatz implementiert und dessen Eignung durch Testläufe validiert.   Calcium silicate masonry production requires a great deal of planning and control due to the fact that subprocesses vary in terms of process technology and time. To overcome this complexity, a simulation-based optimization approach is applied. As a short runtime that allows the method to be used operationally and yet still offers a high quality of solution is crucial, a decomposition approach is implemented on the basis of a previous study and its suitability is validated by means of test runs.


Author(s):  
Naoufel Khayati ◽  
Wided Lejouad-Chaari

In this paper, we present a distributed collaborative system assisting physicians in diagnosis when processing medical images. This is a Web-based solution since the different participants and resources are on various sites. It is collaborative because these participants (physicians, radiologists, knowledgebasesdesigners, program developers for medical image processing, etc.) can work collaboratively to enhance the quality of programs and then the quality of the diagnosis results. It is intelligent since it is a knowledge-based system including, but not only, a knowledge base, an inference engine said supervision engine and ontologies. The current work deals with the osteoporosis detection in bone radiographies. We rely on program supervision techniques that aim to automatically plan and control complex software usage. Our main contribution is to allow physicians, who are not experts in computing, to benefit from technological advances made by experts in image processing, and then to efficiently use various osteoporosis detection programs in a distributed environment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1478-1486

Today, the constantly changing environment, global competition, the nature of work made companies to realize the importance of employee satisfaction for the success of organization. Now-days the competitive advantage of most companies on global market lies in the ability to create a profit driven not only by cost efficiency, but by the ideas and intellectual know-how. The networked and knowledge-based environment made the intangible assets like skills, relations and reputations of highest value. Employee satisfaction is the pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s jobs as achieving or facilities the achievement of one’s job values. It is a measure of workers contentedness with their job. Every industry has different business environment, different policies for employment and different compensation measures. With the objective to analyzing the influencing factors, best policies of job satisfaction and its impact on business growth, the author decided to investigate the level of employee satisfaction in six industries namely: INFOSYS, HCL, Technologies Tech Mahindra, Oracle Financial Services, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services. The researcher prepared questionnaire for the employees and get it filled from 303 respondents from these industries. In order to find level of satisfaction among employees of different industries, it was subjected to T-test statistical tool for variance calculation. The study concluded with the statement that the HR policies are different in different industries. The way they are implemented in different organizations has a great impact on employee satisfaction and retention.


Author(s):  
Arun Kumar Sangaiah ◽  
Vipul Jain

The prediction and estimation software risks ahead have been key predictor for evaluating project performance. Discriminating risk is vital in software project management phase, where risk and performance has been closely inter-related to each other. This chapter aims at hybridization of fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approaches for building an assessment framework that can be used to evaluate risk in the context of software project performance in following dimensions: 1) user, 2) requirements, 3) project complexity, 4) planning and control, 5) team, and 6) organizational environment. For measuring the risk for effectiveness of project performance, we have integrated Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) and Fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) approaches. Moreover the fusion of FMCDM and TOPSIS has not been adequately investigated in the exiting studies.


Author(s):  
José A. Fernández-León ◽  
Gerardo G. Acosta ◽  
Miguel A. Mayosky ◽  
Oscar C. Ibáñez

This work is intended to give an overview of technologies, developed from an artificial intelligence standpoint, devised to face the different planning and control problems involved in trajectory generation for mobile robots. The purpose of this analysis is to give a current context to present the Evolutionary Robotics approach to the problem, which is now being considered as a feasible methodology to develop mobile robots for solving real life problems. This chapter also show the authors’ experiences on related case studies, which are briefly described (a fuzzy logic based path planner for a terrestrial mobile robot, and a knowledge-based system for desired trajectory generation in the Geosub underwater autonomous vehicle). The development of different behaviours within a path generator, built with Evolutionary Robotics concepts, is tested in a Khepera© robot and analyzed in detail. Finally, behaviour coordination based on the artificial immune system metaphor is evaluated for the same application.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayada Abd El-Aziz Youssef ◽  
Essam Moustafa

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the existence of two sets of factors societal institutions and management control systems’ (MCS) characteristics in the UAE business entities. Subsequently, this paper empirically examines the bilateral and the multivariate associations between the two sets. The societal institutions include six factors categorised in three main groups: cultural conventions, state structures and policies and skill development and control. The MCS characteristics consist of four factors which are: reliance on formal rules, control over the behaviour of employees, involvement of subordinates in target setting and performance evaluation and scope of information used in performance evaluation. Design/methodology/approach – Whitley’s model (1999) is adopted in the UAE business environment and the analyses are performed at the organisational level. Qualified accounting officials and managers are surveyed. The Kruskal-Wallis test, Spearman’s partial correlation and multiple regression are used for data analyses. Findings – Findings reveal the characteristics of the UAE societal institutions and the MCS in UAE organisations. They also reveal significant associations among four of the societal institution factors and most of the MCS characteristics. The results highlight the role played by the government structures and policies group in influencing the MCS characteristics in the UAE organisations. However, these results do not entirely agree with Whitley’s model. Research limitations/implications – The results of this study are restricted by the typical constraints associated with the survey method. The obtained results have implications for researchers and managers in facilitating the understanding of the relations among the various societal institutions and the MCS characteristics. Originality/value – This research, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, provides significant new empirical evidence into the relation between societal institutions and MCS characteristics in a non-Western economy.


1995 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Rocky Newman ◽  
V. Sridharan

A manufacturing planning and control (MPC) system is a major part of the infrastructure used by a firm to enhance its competitive position. Although a clear understanding of the mechanics and benefits of alternative MPC systems exists, very little is known about the relationships between such systems, the strategic environment faced by the user‐firms, and their performance in achieving cost/competitive advantage. Historically, the choice of an MPC system appears to have been made based solely on available in‐house expertise, industry trends, or plain inertia. Reports a summary of the results of a survey conducted to explore empirically the relationship between the environmental characteristics faced by the manufacturing function and manufacturing performance of firms using alternative MPC systems. Presents the results of an analysis of the environment faced by best and worst performers using different MPC systems. The results indicate key linkages between the MPC systems, environment, and performance.


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