The Implementation of ERP and MES Systems as a Support to Industrial Management Systems
Published 2018-06-30
Keywords
- ERP system,
- MES system,
- management of the enterprise
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Abstract
The improvement ofthe processeswithin the productionsystemis the need of each company in order to enable bettermonitoringand control, as well as to provide all real-time information that areimportant for the decision-makingprocess,in order to improve all processes and simultaneously controlall elementsof the process. Someof thesystems that provide process monitoring are Enterprise Resources Planning-ERP and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) systems, but they are often not sufficiently integrated. The aim of this paper is to explorethe needs of usersofERP and MES systemsas well as theprocesses ofimplementation and integration of the new MES system into an already existing ERP system in a single automotive industry,with all the benefits forthe users of the system that acompany can achieve by implementing a well-implemented software solution.
Article history: Received (21.12.2017); Revised (15.02.2018); Accepted (06.04.2018)