Enterprise Resource Planning

I’m old enough to remember when MRP was introduced

It was really nice having 2 straight days without you spamming and shitting all over the board with your obsessive self indulgence!

So creep, did you enjoy the holiday?
More likely you were in a situation similar to heroin withdrawal.

Yes, MRP. There were WIP Systems (Work In Process) and then MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems).

Back then it tended to be Mainframe or Minicomputers, multi-user. One production control dept would use the computers and then make schedule printouts for a entire business unit.

But what the systems do has continued to expand, as it has gone more to microcomputers and client-server model. So now everyone is using the computer, and the computers control test and process systems.

What to find online resources about this and books.

I think when it comes to doing it via AI, this Gartner is one of the most advanced.

SJG

Material requirements planning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_r…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ERP_M…

Kanban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

SJG

Gimme Shelter School of Rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

I learned to program on an IBM System/34

It sure wasn’t today’s computers. It weighed 700 pounds and required an air conditioned room. The frickin’ monitor alone cost $2000. And the keyboard weighted 25 pounds!

This was not ancient technologies. It was just the 1980’s and Cheers was on TV not I Love Lucy

Computers often took entire custom buildings back then.

Were you using COBOL?

This is an old book today:

ERP
Making It Happen : the Implementers' Guide to Success With Enterprise Resource Planning
by Wallace, Thomas F.
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SJG

cool adaptation
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Cleveland School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg4AbD6R…