Enterprise Co-operation Leads To Extended Products And More Efficiency” at the “Production and Operations Management Society conference

Internet enables collaborative planning of enterprise networks, however co-operation between businesses has been constrained due to information hiding. Companies are afraid that knowledge about available capacity and forthcoming demand will be misused by the partners in the supply chain. Different levels of information sharing are possible: (1) from the default in which the subcontracting company only returns a fixed lead time and quotation for an order request or (2) a scenario in which the subcontracting partner supplies a set of available production time slots upto (3) full resource schedule information including tracking of rolling stocks. A recently developed collaborative planning methodology – PPC – is documented and obtainable efficiency improvements are shown by simulation. The paper concludes with a reference to ongoing work on the usage of the methodology in the microelectronics and automotive industry. The conclusion also touches the theme how new “extended products ” become feasible as a result of intensified enterprise collaboration. Introducing The Network Enterprise Perspective In Virtual Enterprise Planning Emerging e-marketplace concepts today are only discovering the opportunities enabled b