Order management is a main PPC task in company internal supply chains. It provides the link between
customers and the company's internal order processing processes. The boundary conditions defined hereby
influence adjacent and subsequent main tasks in PPC. However, since usually conflicts between objectives,
such as between utilisation of capacities and schedule reliability are caused in companies, the interaction
between PPC tasks of order management and other main PPC tasks should be taken into account.
Existing approaches often examine the effect of PPC tasks and procedures in isolation for the respective
main task. Especially in the task of order management, the focus of procedures and models lies more on
economic and less on production logistics aspects. Nevertheless, these must be taken into account to assess
the resulting effects on production (e.g. load and due-date situation) and thus on the logistics performance
towards the customer.
To counteract this, the contribution presents a model-based approach, which considers the interactions
between order management tasks and other PPC tasks. Furthermore, the determined interdependencies and
links are used to derive the effects of order management on logistics objectives of production, and to identify
how an integrated view can be used to raise production logistics potentials for improving a company’s
logistics performance. For this purpose, proven models such as the Hanoverian Supply Chain Model and the
extended Aachen PPC Model are used.
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