Integral Logistics Management — Operations Management and Supply Chain Management Within and Across Companies

5.4 Logistics Business Methods in R&D

Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on integrated order processing and simultaneous engineering. Describe release control and engineering change control. Differentiate between various views of the business object according to task.



In R&D, the individual processes do repeat themselves, but always with new products. This section will present some important concepts common to planning & control in this area. The concepts will be treated in Section 17.5 with regard to computer-supported processes.


Course section 5.4: Subsections and their intended learning outcomes

  • 5.4 Logistics Business Methods in R&D

    Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on integrated order processing and simultaneous engineering. Describe release control and engineering change control. Differentiate between various views of the business object according to task.

  • 5.4.1 Integrated Order Processing and Simultaneous Engineering

    Intended learning outcomes: Differentiate between time-to-market and time-to-product. Differentiate between order processing via serial processing and with overlapping phases. Describe some aspects to consider for integrated order processing with overlapping individual phases. Produce an overview on simultaneous or concurrent engineering.

  • 5.4.2 Release Control and Engineering Change Control

    Intended learning outcomes: Describe release and engineering change control (ECC), particularly step-wise release. Present procedures in engineering for new product design or a new product release.

  • 5.4.3 Different Views of the Business Object According to Task

    Intended learning outcomes: Disclose examples of different views of a business object. Present business objects and attributes in the areas of design, release control and engineering change control, and planning & control.



Course 5: Sections and their intended learning outcomes

  • Course 5 – The MRP II / ERP Concept: Business Processes and Methods

    Intended learning outcomes: Disclose business processes and tasks in planning & control. Explain in detail master planning or long-term planning, Describe detailed planning and execution.

  • 5.1 Business Processes and Tasks in Planning & Control

    Intended learning outcomes: Describe the MRP II concept and its planning hierarchy. Explain the part processes and tasks in long-term, medium-term planning as well as in short-term planning & control. Present the reference model of processes and tasks in planning & control. Produce an overview beyond MRP II: DRP II, integrated resource management, and the “theory of constraints”.

  • 5.2 Master Planning — Long-Term Planning

    Intended learning outcomes: Describe demand management, sales and operations planning as well as resource requirements planning. Explain master scheduling and rough-cut capacity planning. Disclose supplier scheduling: blanket order processing, release, and coordination.

  • 5.3 Introduction to Detailed Planning and Execution

    Intended learning outcomes: Disclose basic principles of materials management, scheduling and capacity management concepts. Produce an overview of materials management, scheduling and capacity management techniques. Differentiate between available-to-promise and capable-to-promise.

  • 5.4 Logistics Business Methods in R&D

    Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on integrated order processing and simultaneous engineering. Describe release control and engineering change control. Differentiate between various views of the business object according to task.

  • 5.5 Summary

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  • 5.6 Keywords

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  • 5.7 Scenarios and Exercises

    Intended learning outcomes: Disclose master scheduling for product variants. Calculate the quantity available-to-promise (ATP). Examine an example of the theory of constraints. Elaborate the master planning case.