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Production Planning and Costing Analysis
Welcome to the world of production. It is typically a rather complex environment. Hence there is a valid need to use computers to support decision making. To create a working production plan and coordinate material delivery and routing is still a big challenge for all companies.
A lot of excellent ERP systems support various tasks of production planning. Even innovative methods like the so-called “theory of constraints” are supported. But as always when it comes to decision support, ERP solutions are well-defined, sophisticated, well-implemented—and inflexible.
That is the reason why a new class ...

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