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Analysis of Information Resources for
the Furniture Industry in BIVEE
New Generation Enterprise and Business Innovation
NGEBIS 2013
Fernando Gigante, Pau Crespí {AIDIMA}
Ali Anil Sinaci, R. Volkan Basar {SRDC}
18th June 2013
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Summary
Introduction
Selection of Furniture Companies
Available Information Resources in the AS-IS
Use of Information Resources in the TO-BE
Conclusions
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Introduction (I)
The analysis described in this short paper is focused on
the improvement on production activities in the SMEs
Information systems
Documentation
Some challenges detected while doing the analysis
No complete enough information systems in many SMEs
Semi-formalized information resources
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Introduction (II)
Detection of the Key Resources to be analysed on the
“road to improvement”
Business processes
Actors involved
Documentation flow
Key Performance Indicators -> Production Activities
The ways to obtain this information have been
Technical / no-technical Interviews
Questionnaires
Information from ERP (processes / documents / KPI)
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Selection of SMEs - Furniture companies
Selection criteria
Desired level of reflection of the furniture sector
Production activities based on a Virtual Enterprise
approach
Implanted ERP or Production Information System
Enough production information in their current systems
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Information Resources Available ‘AS-IS’
GdP – ERP Production Management Software Areas
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Information Resources Available ‘AS-IS’
GdP – ERP Production Configuration Workflow
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Information Resources Available ‘AS-IS’
KPI measurement through GdP - ERP
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Information Resources ‘TO-BE’
Problems detected
ERP has not enough information about management and external
processes
ERP is focused on internal production operations and data
No production processes formalization found in the companies
Actions taken
Technical meetings / interviews with production companies
Analysis of internal / external processes
Formal definition of production processes
Matching with different stakeholders
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Information Resources ‘TO-BE’
Production processes modelling (supported by ADONIS© software)
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Information Resources ‘TO-BE’
Identification of Production Documents
ERP and not-linked documentation
Matching between different furniture companies
Focus on exchanging documents
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Information Resources ‘TO-BE’
The funStep ontology is based on the international
standard ISO 10303-236 for furniture and wood industry
Composed and cross-checked against books, interviews
and regulations
Definition of a common furniture vocabulary
Products
Accessories
Materials
Developed under OWL DL
Furniture knowledge
Automatic inferences
Consistency checking
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Conclusions
Top Hindering Factors
Special training required
Fear of change
Mistrust in the new methods
Lack of information about scope and benefits
Many SMEs do not have a mechanism to manage changes
Analysis of impact on the current business processes
Current systems should be able to manage the achieved
improvements
Management of new processes / resources
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Thanks for your attention !
Questions?
Fernando Gigante Valencia
[email protected]
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