the authors
wai hung ip is with the department of manufacturing
engineering the hong kong polytechnic university
kowloon hong kong.
richard c.m. yam is with the department of manufacturing engineering and engineering management the city
university of hong kong hong kong.
abstract
manufacturing resources planning (mrpii) is recognized
as being an effective management system that has an
excellent planning and scheduling capability which can
offer a dramatic increase in customer service significant
gains in productivity much higher inventory turns and a
greater reduction in material costs. many companies
world-wide have attempted to implement mrpii systems.
many of them are now using mrpii with various level of
satisfaction. however failure of mrpii implementation
was in fact experienced by other companies. this paper
proposes an integrated system design and implementation
approach to overcome the difficulties. it aims to formulate
a standard process by combining strategic elements
problem definition mrpii solutions technical and procedural design and implementation management in order to
minimize the frustration and conflicts commonly found in
mrpii implementation as well as to reduce disconnection
among different stages of design and implementation. a
hierarchical analysis technique using integrated definition
method (idef) is used to support the design and implementation management. the examples illustrated that it
provides an invaluable support in the management of
mrpii system