Gozintographs for By-Products and Cyclic Production: An Approach for ERP System Application
Peter Loos · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2001
Cyclic production, which is distinctive of recycling and chemical processes, and by-products can hardly be managed in common ERP systems.This problem is discussed using graph representations like gozintographs.Furthermore an approach is presented to handle by-products and cyclic production with common gozintograph structures for acceptable solutions in the material requirements planning (MRP).For ERP application appropriated data structures are proposed.A discussion of benefits and limitations of the approach conclude the contribution.