ERP SAP ia the medium for accomplishing this integration of decision making processes. Since nearly every department in a company could be automated, the technology exists to link and coordinate all of these automated functions, to make them “talk” to each other.
It is possible, so the theory goes, that your customers could send in their orders via EDI directly through your order processing center, which automatically generates the appropriate material releases and production requirements. The computerized scheduler could place the required production line items in the Master Schedule in the most efficient way possible, take into account your raw materials inventories, and then not only simulate the schedule, but predict problems, and make the appropriate adjustments.
After the computer-controlled manufacturing process is complete, the resulting inventory is automatically distributed and warehoused in the least cost/highest customer service configuration throughout the system. By the way, throughout this journey all of the erp in india requests and accounting have been continuously updated, and top management was kept abreast of how smoothly everything is running. Setting aside any ideological objections, wouldn’t it be nice to have control over everything in this way?