CA2383934A1 - Electronic data processing system for operations management - Google Patents
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The invention relates to an electronic data processing system for operations management. The aim of the invention is to develop an electronic data processing system for operations management which depicts, in a redundancy-free manner, the economic facts, findings and progressions in the individual businesses, and secures and controls the electronic data processing technical linking of all aggregates used for producing goods while integrating communications technology. The electronic data processing system is comprised of a computer system (24), of an intelligent control system (25), of a goods preparation process/goods management process (16) and of a base integration system (22), which is assigned to said computer system (24) and is connected to the intelligent control system (25) via a connection (a) and is connected to the goods preparation process/goods management process (16) via a special interface (21).
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EDP system for business management The invention refers to an EDP system for business management that can be used to integrate heterogeneous operational characteristic-value acquisition units for characteristic quantities required for goods production and goods management and to control goods production or goods management in all individual businesses and business units.
It is generally known that EDP systems are used for business management, for providing management with information, for analysis or as an expert system.
A solution is known from document EP 0 209 907 A2 according to which the various management and administration functions in a big company are carned out by different, already existing individual systems, each individual system having historically been configured autonomously, each with its own format, parameters, definitions, inputs, etc.
There are rarely any interfaces between the systems, so that the individual systems cannot easily communicate with each other unless via an operator or special adaptor programs.
The solution is intended to improve the connection between the various and autonomous types of management and administration as well as the input, storage and further processing of the input data. The disadvantage of this solution is that no mapping is made of the production process or parts thereof. Any influence on or control of the production process occurs solely through verbal or numeric manual input. Communication occurs offline (intermediate storage), as necessary, for later retrieval, and not in real-time. There is no central control by management, but rather a decentralized information exchange (similar to a mail system). Mapping of the goods production process or goods management process as a whole, including controlling or influencing, is not provided.
The results according to the state-of the-art to date have no effect on the management control circuit.
The document US 5251294 describes a type of information system that accesses different addressable and identified contents of a database by means of a computer.
Similar to an expert system, the data stock is stored according to content. In the case of an expert system, however, the whole data stock is subject to numerous rules, which has an adverse effect on the search time. The disclosed characterizing feature is the inclusion of the user's idea in the search field to be examined, whereby only that subset of hierarchically classified contents is administered which is created through the selected higher hierarchy level or through combinations with other subsets. Since the information is already identified, immediate access to the content of the selected set is possible.
Thus, the displayed, predicted content is determined by the user's solution method (the chronology of selection). This chronology of the solution method is shown in the form of a logic tree.
Complex and mostly unstructured problems are given as the field of application and the business process is illustrated by means of examples. With this solution, there is no mapping of the production process, but rather a selective choice is made from a large knowledge base of an indicated database. There is no mapping of the goods production or goods management process as a whole, including control or influence. The existing results have no effect on the management control circuit.
Document DE 4431131 describes a "technical-organizational system tool". It comprises a set of rules with data or information for networked units, in particular business organizations. With respect to creating a control circuit with this "system tool", the participants in this business organization support themselves by way of self organization.
The objective is to control a complex production process through the participants in this set of rules. It has been implemented as a software program in combination with special hardware. In terms of software, modules provided with systematics are created with a suitable software and the process components are weighted with multipliers.
The different control circuits form a vertical hierarchy. The required data are acquired via production data acquisition systems and the communication is integrated into the system.
The set of rules works on the basis of process, fault and performance measurement with parameters.
The result-oriented management is mapped into a process-oriented management in a control circuit, the criterion comprising a spiral of continuous improvement.
To this end, process-oriented function units are connected with each other. The self organization is created through self adapting control of the process components of the business processes. The disadvantage of this solution is that the data upon which this business control circuit is based cannot be provided redundancy-free and thus safely acquired by the EDP system online and in real-time.
David Hare's publication "Succeeding with ERP", MANUFACTURING ENGINEER, April 1999 (1999-04), pages 65 - 67, XP002177153, describes the implementation of an ERP software in a storage administration system connected to a real-time process monitoring system. This coupling is used to automate and flexibilize production planning as well as for storage and distribution, outgoing materials, controlling (including profit and loss statement), sales prognoses, shipping scheduling and customer service.
A similar system for the improved planning and monitoring of activities with quick response to changes is mentioned by Fox et al in the document "The Integrated Supply Chain Management System", Internet Citation, XX, XX, December 7, 1993 (1993-12-07), pages 1 - 11, XP002090173. Between agents, a coordination and logical cooperation occurs on the three levels Strategy, Tactics and Effect for the areas Requests, Distribution, Production and Materials Management. Thus, only some sections of corporate management are covered, without taking into account the complex connections within a business process.
Furthermore, in the publication "Impacts of Enterprise Wide Supply-Chain Management Techniques on Process Control", Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, August 22 - 27, 1999, pages 605 - 608, XP002177154 Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA, Tjoa et al describe the integration of enterprise resource planning and supply chain management for optimizing business processes and decision-making by interlinking them with the production process. The main factors in management decisions and flexible production are considered to be delivery times, production volume, production costs and service quality, resulting in a limited application for certain sections of corporate management.
It is generally known that EDP systems are used for business management, for providing management with information, for analysis or as an expert system.
A solution is known from document EP 0 209 907 A2 according to which the various management and administration functions in a big company are carned out by different, already existing individual systems, each individual system having historically been configured autonomously, each with its own format, parameters, definitions, inputs, etc.
There are rarely any interfaces between the systems, so that the individual systems cannot easily communicate with each other unless via an operator or special adaptor programs.
The solution is intended to improve the connection between the various and autonomous types of management and administration as well as the input, storage and further processing of the input data. The disadvantage of this solution is that no mapping is made of the production process or parts thereof. Any influence on or control of the production process occurs solely through verbal or numeric manual input. Communication occurs offline (intermediate storage), as necessary, for later retrieval, and not in real-time. There is no central control by management, but rather a decentralized information exchange (similar to a mail system). Mapping of the goods production process or goods management process as a whole, including controlling or influencing, is not provided.
The results according to the state-of the-art to date have no effect on the management control circuit.
The document US 5251294 describes a type of information system that accesses different addressable and identified contents of a database by means of a computer.
Similar to an expert system, the data stock is stored according to content. In the case of an expert system, however, the whole data stock is subject to numerous rules, which has an adverse effect on the search time. The disclosed characterizing feature is the inclusion of the user's idea in the search field to be examined, whereby only that subset of hierarchically classified contents is administered which is created through the selected higher hierarchy level or through combinations with other subsets. Since the information is already identified, immediate access to the content of the selected set is possible.
Thus, the displayed, predicted content is determined by the user's solution method (the chronology of selection). This chronology of the solution method is shown in the form of a logic tree.
Complex and mostly unstructured problems are given as the field of application and the business process is illustrated by means of examples. With this solution, there is no mapping of the production process, but rather a selective choice is made from a large knowledge base of an indicated database. There is no mapping of the goods production or goods management process as a whole, including control or influence. The existing results have no effect on the management control circuit.
Document DE 4431131 describes a "technical-organizational system tool". It comprises a set of rules with data or information for networked units, in particular business organizations. With respect to creating a control circuit with this "system tool", the participants in this business organization support themselves by way of self organization.
The objective is to control a complex production process through the participants in this set of rules. It has been implemented as a software program in combination with special hardware. In terms of software, modules provided with systematics are created with a suitable software and the process components are weighted with multipliers.
The different control circuits form a vertical hierarchy. The required data are acquired via production data acquisition systems and the communication is integrated into the system.
The set of rules works on the basis of process, fault and performance measurement with parameters.
The result-oriented management is mapped into a process-oriented management in a control circuit, the criterion comprising a spiral of continuous improvement.
To this end, process-oriented function units are connected with each other. The self organization is created through self adapting control of the process components of the business processes. The disadvantage of this solution is that the data upon which this business control circuit is based cannot be provided redundancy-free and thus safely acquired by the EDP system online and in real-time.
David Hare's publication "Succeeding with ERP", MANUFACTURING ENGINEER, April 1999 (1999-04), pages 65 - 67, XP002177153, describes the implementation of an ERP software in a storage administration system connected to a real-time process monitoring system. This coupling is used to automate and flexibilize production planning as well as for storage and distribution, outgoing materials, controlling (including profit and loss statement), sales prognoses, shipping scheduling and customer service.
A similar system for the improved planning and monitoring of activities with quick response to changes is mentioned by Fox et al in the document "The Integrated Supply Chain Management System", Internet Citation, XX, XX, December 7, 1993 (1993-12-07), pages 1 - 11, XP002090173. Between agents, a coordination and logical cooperation occurs on the three levels Strategy, Tactics and Effect for the areas Requests, Distribution, Production and Materials Management. Thus, only some sections of corporate management are covered, without taking into account the complex connections within a business process.
Furthermore, in the publication "Impacts of Enterprise Wide Supply-Chain Management Techniques on Process Control", Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, August 22 - 27, 1999, pages 605 - 608, XP002177154 Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA, Tjoa et al describe the integration of enterprise resource planning and supply chain management for optimizing business processes and decision-making by interlinking them with the production process. The main factors in management decisions and flexible production are considered to be delivery times, production volume, production costs and service quality, resulting in a limited application for certain sections of corporate management.
The aforementioned documents deal only with certain sections of the business process of an enterprise. However, it is not possible to map and control the whole, general business process of the enterprise via EDP, since the raw data that are used are a mix of details and complex values.
From the document Kappelhoff, R. "Integration of ERP to the final control elements" in ISA Transactions, Instrument Society of America, Pittsburgh, US, Vol. 36, No.
4, 1997, pages 229 - 238, XP004118375 ISSN: 0019-0578, the integration of an ERP/MRP
system with a real-time production control system especially for products manufactured from multiple components is known. The real-time production control system is the executing organ and the starting point for most of the strategies for enterprise control. In the ERP/MRP system, the S88 model is implemented as the process control standard which describes how the necessary data can be stored and exchanged.
Amongst other things, this is intended to give companies control over their quality requirements and delivery mechanisms throughout the world.
The described interlinkings permit administrative evaluations to be carried out through reciprocal data communications between the manufacturing process, quality control and ERP software by recording the messages of a production unit and comparing them with an ideal situation. These would be used for improving the use of materials and the utilization of resources, but without controlling the general business process; however, the additional unsolved problem exists: which data to store in which part of the interlinkings.
Basically, this integration of an ERP/MRP system with a real-time production control system is suitable for use throughout an enterprise. However, this integrated system, too, is not suitable for mapping the general business process of an enterprise, analyzing it and using it for business management.
The object of the invention is to develop an EDP system for business management which, using the business facts, states and processes in the individual businesses and business units, maps, analyses, evaluates and triggers responses redundancy-free by means of the lowest common multiple, and secures and controls the EDP connections of all the units used for the production of goods by means of communications technology, whereby the production data are edited and processed directly online and in real-time via production data acquisition workstations.
According to the invention, the object is fulfilled through the characterizing features listed in Claim 1. The sub-claims contain preferred embodiments of the invention.
The advantages of the invention are - that the production data are edited and processed via production data acquisition stations, - that the EDP connection of all the units used in production are integrated in the comprehensive enterprise information system via interfaces and special interface software and that the units used for production are controlled by them, - that by the symbiosis of EDP system, telephone system and Internet, the internal and external communication occurs via an integration means supported by EDP. Thus, the structure of the "integration" is formulated as a "postulate" of comprehensive "integration" beyond "just" software, including production and communications technology, and implemented in this system, - that the individual relationships of the performance potential of the enterprise are correctly mapped by means of information technology via the element of integration and are used to control goods production and goods management, - that the information technology, as the "transmission mechanism", affects the coordination process between production and consumption areas, - that, as an identification criterion, the integration element in the aforementioned coordination process affects all the business processes between production and consumption, - that an information system of the enterprise's goods production and goods management is mapped via the software, - that there is continuous improvement in the process of coordination proceedings between the market participants and the enterprise units right up to the execution level in the process of goods production and marketing, - that the integrated software adds the expenses incurred by the production process to the cost account in real-time and online, thus permitting the transparent actual cost of the goods to be displayed at any time, - that the required combined factors in the goods production process are displayed according to process sequence and cost accounting, - that the services used in the production of goods can be determined in real-time via information technology and can be separated according to department, - that the existing evaluation results have an effect on the management control circuit.
The essence of the invention is characterized in that it is an EDP-based process for enterprise management in which the whole business process is integrated in the EDP, thus making this integration itself a fundamental factor in the production. With this operational base as the prerequisite for the solution, it is possible to adapt a business model in such a way that with the implementation of the software, generally, in all the business units, the business process can be suitably mapped in the EDP by means of the base element according to the invention. This mapping of the general business process, which is especially suitable for EDP, in a software program for enterprise management is what is special, specifically realized by means of the base element. This software application maps a whole enterprise redundancy-free and in real-time through numerous base elements according to the business units, provides this information to other units, makes an enterprise transparent to a non-humanoid controller and draws up additional analyses, carries out control functions programmed as processes, independently evaluates individual processes according to defined criteria and initiates the respective responses.
This mapping of the business process information of an enterprise through EDP
is carried out using the software application without requiring the use of the human mind, but rather as the consequence of utilizing controllable natural forces in the form of processes inherent in the system as well as process evaluation and the programmed control processes. Independent of the present concrete programmed implementation as a program code, this solution implements a technical and information process.
Using examples, the invention is explained in detail below.
Figure 1 shows the production factors and their targeted combination for an existing demand on the goods and factor market.
Figure 2 shows the interlinking of business data as elements of the integration.
Figure 3 shows the integration, combination and evaluation of the factors of goods production management.
Figure 4 shows the principle of an EDP system for business management.
Figure 5 shows the technical implementation of an EDP system for business management.
The development of an EDP system for business management which serves to integrate heterogeneous operational characteristic-value acquisition units for characteristic quantities required for goods production and goods management and to control goods production is based on the management control circuit whose starting point is the production and consumption area, the separation of the business areas into production and consumption being defined through controlled, functional money management.
Production (provision of products and services) is provided by the individual businesses and business units (enterprises, public corporations, etc.). Consumption (consuming products and services) is classified under private households. The exchange of products and services between private households and the remaining individual businesses and business units occurs via the factor and goods markets. The evaluation of the goods (products and services) occurs (under the assumption of a controlled financial system) on the basis of supply and demand. The "integrated" factor combination represents the performance potential of the individual businesses and business units. The integration elements of the "integration" factor permit computer support of the factor combinations and the mapping of all the business processes by means of the business management software. The business facts, states and processes in the individual businesses and business units are thus mapped redundancy-free through the software by means of the EDP system.
g Goods and services are created in the enterprises in a known manner by the targeted combination of production factors for an existing demand on the goods and factor market, the performance potential 1 existing in the enterprise being classified in elementary factors 2 of management, human labour 3, operating material 4 (offered by the individual businesses and business units), materials 5 (offered by the individual businesses and business units), retrievable available information (6) as a kind of knowledge, as shown in Figure 1. Materials 5 (semi-finished goods, fabricated materials, accessory materials) comprises all goods that flow into goods production as variable resources. The performance potential 1 of the individual businesses becomes effective through the ability to combine elementary factors 2 (human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5 and retrievable available information 6) via an optional factor 7 which is organized and created in the respective individual business. The combination of factors, as the performance potential 1 of the enterprise, is carried out in the business units identified as "function areas". The classification of the functions to be allocated to these function areas is based on the prescribed fact combination process in the different lines of business. One essential prerequisite for the successful organization of internal and external business processes in targeted actions during goods production and in order to ensure services is the integration of the function areas and functions in the enterprise. Only with integration will the processes during the combination of factors (as repeatable work processes) be standardized through the "transmission effect" of the software and thus be "certainly"
repeatable. The required hardware, which is necessary to use the software, is allocated to the elementary factor 2, operating material 4. Integration of the information technology across all the function areas and functions requires that the classification of function areas must fulfil the demand for universal validity, whereby it must be noted that, through their weighting, the enterprise's individual lines of business may differ in their factor combinations, but can still be mapped in the same function area plan. In order to create a software, as the basic integration system for business management, which is independent of the lines of business and simultaneously specific to the lines of business, mapping the business performance process requires that to the elementary factor 2 comprising human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5, retrievable available information 6 as well as the optional factor 7, a factor integration 8 be added, which serves to record, identify and determine the consumption of value as well as to define the use of human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5 and the retrievable available information 6 in production. The effectiveness of the combination of factors depends mainly on the optional factor 7 and the achieved degree of integration of the function areas and functions.
The factor integration 8 that has an effect in the function areas works through a base element 9 as shown in Figure 2. Sub-totaled under the base element 9 or farces of integration are the smallest units of common data, facts and processes, from whose sum a "whole" is formed. The breakdown of the base element 8 is based on the requirement to trace back all the states or processes of business activity to the "smallest building blocks"
which, at the same time, are also sub-totaled elements (in an overall quantity). When the structure of the business has been traced back to no longer differentiable data and facts, then any conceivable combination in all the business processes can be mapped and joined again to form optionally designed units of technical and business states, processes and organizational structures. This ensures that these "smallest elements" of business data (facts, states, etc.) are simultaneously elements of the factor integration 8 and form the base element 9 which comprises at least two of the elements address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13, the characterizing features of the address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13 can be optionally interchanged.
The suitable information and communication technologies used to control the business processes and production processes are capable of mapping and editing these complex connections.
Examples of the characterizing features follow:
Address 10:
The clear identification of all market participants is carried out via address 10. In data f processing, this term for the "identification" of all persons, legal entities, etc. permits the allocation of all business processes. The factor human labour 3 is also directly recorded via address 10. Address 10 identifies all market participants (supplier, customer, etc.), enterprise divisions, departments, etc. right down to the employees. Thus all location- and name-related information can be stored centrally and redundancy-free at a single location and edited, stored and retrieved as data, voice and images for the information and communication technology.
Article 11:
The object of all business activity is goods (products and services). These goods (including public goods) must be clearly identified in data processing; this process is called article identification. The term article 11 is used to identify all operating material 4 (including land and capital) as well as materials 5 and retrievable available information 6, and the performance (task, work process, scheduling, etc.) involved in the production process is also recorded via article 11. Even human labour 3 provided as a service and used as a factor is recorded and edited via article identification 11. Thus all the products (including semi-finished goods and accessory materials, etc.) to be recorded in the production process or in sales as goods, as well as services that are objects of business activity and cost and performance accounting are recorded with article 11. The time to be charged or the overhead to be distributed using "apportionment formulae", etc.
must also, according to this definition, be edited under the identification of "article no. logic" in article 11. With the exception of the optional factor 7, all performance factors are recorded via article identification 11 and thus can be recognized, i.e.
recorded, by data processing.
Conditions 12:
The influences on article 11 are called conditions 12. These include the physical quantities in the various units and the measurable influences on the article 11. The influences are allocated as influence factors to article 11 via parameterizable "formulae"
(as states that can be duplicated by calculation), as required. As a result, the physical and measurable effects on article 11 become calculable and, thus, accessible far data processing. The special "address conditions" resulting from the combination of article 11 and address 10 are also recorded via conditions 12 and taken into account in all the processes that affect these combinations, thus also the evaluation of performance consumption in the work processes, tasks or activities. The same applies to conditions 12 that are valid for certain processes or interlinkings (from address 10 ->
article 11 ->
process 13) and the "special conditions" which require particular attention here. From the elements of integration 10 to 11, optional states can be depicted which, out of the numerous theoretical connections, are valid based on "special conditions" and can thus be clearly set out in the software programs.
Process 13:
The description of factor combinations is carried out via process 13. Each business action is carried out under firmly defined or freely designable (innovative) process types. The rules established by a higher authority (statutory or corporate) concerning goods traffic or the universally valid directives (such as laws and official regulations) governing active or passive behaviour within the enterprise (internal) and on the market (external) are mapped via process 13. Sub-listed under the term "external processes" are all the rules (laws, official regulations, etc.) and regulations (freely designable agreements) with the economic region and market participants outside the enterprise. The external processes also apply to the information and goods exchange processes defined voluntarily or bindingly or set out in standards (universally applicable, e.g. EDIFACT, SEDAS, CCG
standards, etc.) by the market participants. Internally acquired know-how (patents, trade marks and copyrights) as well as rights and patents utilized by external market participants are also integrated in the performance process of the enterprise via process 13. The factor combinations occurring in the enterprise as well as the optional tasks to be carried out by the senior levels are compiled under the term "internal processes" in process 13. In order to control the factor combinations in the enterprise, systems are used for recording production data, computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and for production planning and control. The necessary organizational descriptions and the technical integration of all the production aggregates in the information technology (via interfaces) are defined and physically realized through the integration element "internal processes" in process 13, so too the description of person-related tasks, work stations and work processes. The utilization and use of operating material 4 in the respective special combination (according to the state-of the-art and the available infrastructure) in the individual businesses and business units for the respective goods production are described or set out through process 13. All the processes and rules between the market participants and between the function areas or functions in the enterprise are recorded in reality through process 13 based on the actual situation. The greater the degree of mapping that is achieved, the lower the friction losses (caused by data processing) between the market participants and the enterprise's lines of business in the production process.
Recording the material consumption in goods production using the software of the base integration system occurs in the same way as human labour 3 and operating material 4 through address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13.
As shown in Figure 3, the goods offered on the markets are created from the combination of performance potential l, the elementary factor 2 and the base element 9 in the enterprises, individual businesses and business units. At the time of observation, the performance potential 1 of an enterprise is considered to be given.
Improvement in performance is, however, still the permanent task of management. Thus the necessity of optimizing the deployment of individual performance factors. Technical progress and international division of labour permit management to change the factor combination in the enterprise over time and to increase its competitiveness. The development of the factor prices on the markets and, thus, in the enterprises, is the primary reason for the changes in the structure of the factor combinations. The combination of factors, as the interlinking of the elementary factor 2 as human labour 3, operating material (aggregates, machines, site), materials 5 (including raw materials, accessory materials, operating materials), retrievable available information 6, control this process through management of the optional activity 7 (optional factor 7) and integration 8 occurs, according to the prescribed production function, as EDP mapping in the function areas of management and controlling by means of time management 14, goods management /
cost accounting and finances 15 through the base element 9 with address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13, a goods production process / goods management process 16 (goods manufacture) in the form of the manufactured products 17.
The factor combinations (in the goods production process / goods management process 16) in Figure 3 show that the performance potential 1 of the enterprise (capacities of human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5, retrievable available information 6) in combination with the performance of the factor integration 8 via this base element 9, address 10 and article 11, conditions 12 and process 13 is mapped according to process sequence and cost accounting. The types of performance: amount of work, use of operating material as well as consumed materials, which flow into the goods production process / goods management process 16 can be determined in real-time through data processing and can be delimited in the performance process from department to department. The measurable and physical projection of individual work processes, machine performance and materials consumption in the goods production process must be directly attributed to the cost account of the respective department. Thus the integrated software of the base integration system ensures that the expenses incurred by the production process are attributed to the cost account in real-time and online, making the "actual costs" of the individual goods transparent at any time. This mapping process of the goods production in the information system must be broken down into criteria specific to the lines of business. Breaking down the enterprise into groups, types and different lines of business is carried out subject to configuring a software specific to the lines of business of the base integration system for the enterprise using the application.
According to Figure 4, the principle of the EDP system for enterprise management is shown as a mapping of the goods production process / goods management process with heterogeneous individual businesses / business units 18 of an enterprise comprising, for instance, units of management, research and development, financial department, advertisement, quality assurance system, incoming and outgoing goods, stockkeeping, human resources and production, etc. which, through heterogeneous data connections 19, are partially connected to characteristic value acquisition and control units for controlling and monitoring goods production which, through their logical model, can be shown as a base element 9, in that the performance potential 1 of the individual businesses and business units 18 can be formed by the elementary factors 2 such as human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5, retrievable available information 6, which work with the integration 8 via an optional factor 7, and the base element 9, which comprises at least two elements of the address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13, the characterizing features of the elements capable of being interchangeably used, whereby the data connections 19 allocated to a goods production process / goods management process 16 are connected, via a specific integration element 20, individually and/or jointly with others to a base integration system 22 via specific interfaces 21, the base integration system 22 comprising a software 23 and a known computer system 24. This base integration system 22, using the software 23, permits the goods production process goods management process 16 to be mapped in real-time, the software 23 permits the allocation of the base element 9 to the individual businesses / business units 18, the base element 9 is actively connected in real-time to the allocated characteristic-value acquisition and control units via the specific integration element 20 and the specific data connections 19, the base elements 9 in their entirety map this goods production process /
goods management process 16 so adequately that their control and monitoring is provided by directives from an intelligent control system 25. The intelligent control system 25 is connected by a cable (a) to the base integration system 22. Information in real-time is provided by the intelligent control system 25 as data records that are converted into signals and vice versa from signals into data records, which is carned out, using directives from it for the goods production process / goods management process 16, by the computer 26, through a software layer 27 and through a connecting element 28 by means of a software; the software layer 27 and the connecting element 28 together with the internal software may form an integral part of the computer system 24), and the intelligent control system 25, by means of the computer 26, the software layer 27 and the connecting element 28, interacts with the base integration system 22 and the specific integration element 20 via the data connections 19 with the individual businesses /
business units 18 in such a way that the performance potential 1 of the individual businesses / business units 18 is identified by elementary factors 2 and available as a data record in the intelligent control system 25, and makes a selection of directives for positively influencing the goods production process / goods management process 16 and then controls the goods production process / goods management process 16 by means of the aforementioned data flow and active connections with the objective of a profit-oriented and process-oriented management of the goods production process /
goods management process 16, which is specified by the elementary factors 2, human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5 and retrievable available information 6 and whose ability to be combined depends on an optional factor 7 and an integration 8.
According to Figure 5, technically the EDP system for business management is realized on different levels and in different modules that are connected with one another via permanently defined interfaces and are thus interchangeable, without affecting the other modules.
A presentation / interaction 29 serves as an interface to human labour 3, receives input from it and provides it with the determined results. It communicates with an application 31 via a permanently defined interface I 30. The application 31 contains the operational flow logic and carnes out the actions requested by human labour 3. To this end, it communicates with a data management system 33 via an interface II 32. The data management system 33 accesses an internal database 35 via an interface III 34 or accesses a remote (external) database 37 via an interface IV 36 and via this interface provides the application 31 with the data required for processing or it downloads the data determined by the application 31 into the internal database 35 or into the external database 37.
The permanently defined interface I 30 permits the module presentation /
interaction 29 to be exchanged without affecting the other levels and modules. Thus, text presentations and graphic presentations are interchangeable without having to change the application 31. Similarly, the firm definition of the interface II 32 permits the data management system to be exchanged without affecting the other levels and modules. The interface I 29 to human labour 3 and the type of data maintenance can be changed in this way, without having to change the other components.
In order to integrate the aggregates used in the production of the goods and services, a high level application interface 39 addresses the application 31 via an interface V 38. This is not operating-material-specific, but rather provides a higher-level quantity of functions that can request the application 31 from the aggregates used in the production of goods and services. Via an interface VI 41, the high-level application interface 39 accesses an operating-material-specific communication to operating materials 42 which controls the operating materials 4 via an interface VII 43. The operating materials 4 may be optionally controllable aggregates such as scales, scanners, high-shelf storage or tubular tracks. A
control message manager 40 is an autonomous layer around the presentation /
interaction 29, the application 31, the data management system 33, the high-level application interface 39 and the interfaces 30, 32, 34, 35 and 38. It intercepts the messages from the different modules and interfaces and directs them to the addressed module which processes the message accordingly.
f Terminology:
1 Performance potential 2 Elementary factor 3 Human labour 4 Operating materials Materials 6 Retrievable available information 7 Optional factor 8 Integration 9 Base element Address 11 Article 12 Condition 13 Process 14 Time management Goods management / cost accounting and finances 16 Goods production process / goods management process 17 Product 18 Individual business / business unit 19 Data connection Specific integration element 21 Specific interface 22 Base integration system 23 Software 24 Computer system Intelligent control system 26 Computer 27 Software layer 28 Connecting element 29 Presentation / interaction s 30 Interface I between presentation / interaction and application 31 Application 32 Interface II between application and data management system 33 Data management system 34 Interface III between data management system and internal database 35 Internal database 36 Interface IV between data management system and external database 37 External database 38 Interface V between application and high-level application interface 39 High-level application interface 40 Control message manager 41 Interface VI between the high-level application interface and the communication to operating materials 42 Communication to operating materials 43 Interface VII between the communication operating materials and the operating materials a Connection
From the document Kappelhoff, R. "Integration of ERP to the final control elements" in ISA Transactions, Instrument Society of America, Pittsburgh, US, Vol. 36, No.
4, 1997, pages 229 - 238, XP004118375 ISSN: 0019-0578, the integration of an ERP/MRP
system with a real-time production control system especially for products manufactured from multiple components is known. The real-time production control system is the executing organ and the starting point for most of the strategies for enterprise control. In the ERP/MRP system, the S88 model is implemented as the process control standard which describes how the necessary data can be stored and exchanged.
Amongst other things, this is intended to give companies control over their quality requirements and delivery mechanisms throughout the world.
The described interlinkings permit administrative evaluations to be carried out through reciprocal data communications between the manufacturing process, quality control and ERP software by recording the messages of a production unit and comparing them with an ideal situation. These would be used for improving the use of materials and the utilization of resources, but without controlling the general business process; however, the additional unsolved problem exists: which data to store in which part of the interlinkings.
Basically, this integration of an ERP/MRP system with a real-time production control system is suitable for use throughout an enterprise. However, this integrated system, too, is not suitable for mapping the general business process of an enterprise, analyzing it and using it for business management.
The object of the invention is to develop an EDP system for business management which, using the business facts, states and processes in the individual businesses and business units, maps, analyses, evaluates and triggers responses redundancy-free by means of the lowest common multiple, and secures and controls the EDP connections of all the units used for the production of goods by means of communications technology, whereby the production data are edited and processed directly online and in real-time via production data acquisition workstations.
According to the invention, the object is fulfilled through the characterizing features listed in Claim 1. The sub-claims contain preferred embodiments of the invention.
The advantages of the invention are - that the production data are edited and processed via production data acquisition stations, - that the EDP connection of all the units used in production are integrated in the comprehensive enterprise information system via interfaces and special interface software and that the units used for production are controlled by them, - that by the symbiosis of EDP system, telephone system and Internet, the internal and external communication occurs via an integration means supported by EDP. Thus, the structure of the "integration" is formulated as a "postulate" of comprehensive "integration" beyond "just" software, including production and communications technology, and implemented in this system, - that the individual relationships of the performance potential of the enterprise are correctly mapped by means of information technology via the element of integration and are used to control goods production and goods management, - that the information technology, as the "transmission mechanism", affects the coordination process between production and consumption areas, - that, as an identification criterion, the integration element in the aforementioned coordination process affects all the business processes between production and consumption, - that an information system of the enterprise's goods production and goods management is mapped via the software, - that there is continuous improvement in the process of coordination proceedings between the market participants and the enterprise units right up to the execution level in the process of goods production and marketing, - that the integrated software adds the expenses incurred by the production process to the cost account in real-time and online, thus permitting the transparent actual cost of the goods to be displayed at any time, - that the required combined factors in the goods production process are displayed according to process sequence and cost accounting, - that the services used in the production of goods can be determined in real-time via information technology and can be separated according to department, - that the existing evaluation results have an effect on the management control circuit.
The essence of the invention is characterized in that it is an EDP-based process for enterprise management in which the whole business process is integrated in the EDP, thus making this integration itself a fundamental factor in the production. With this operational base as the prerequisite for the solution, it is possible to adapt a business model in such a way that with the implementation of the software, generally, in all the business units, the business process can be suitably mapped in the EDP by means of the base element according to the invention. This mapping of the general business process, which is especially suitable for EDP, in a software program for enterprise management is what is special, specifically realized by means of the base element. This software application maps a whole enterprise redundancy-free and in real-time through numerous base elements according to the business units, provides this information to other units, makes an enterprise transparent to a non-humanoid controller and draws up additional analyses, carries out control functions programmed as processes, independently evaluates individual processes according to defined criteria and initiates the respective responses.
This mapping of the business process information of an enterprise through EDP
is carried out using the software application without requiring the use of the human mind, but rather as the consequence of utilizing controllable natural forces in the form of processes inherent in the system as well as process evaluation and the programmed control processes. Independent of the present concrete programmed implementation as a program code, this solution implements a technical and information process.
Using examples, the invention is explained in detail below.
Figure 1 shows the production factors and their targeted combination for an existing demand on the goods and factor market.
Figure 2 shows the interlinking of business data as elements of the integration.
Figure 3 shows the integration, combination and evaluation of the factors of goods production management.
Figure 4 shows the principle of an EDP system for business management.
Figure 5 shows the technical implementation of an EDP system for business management.
The development of an EDP system for business management which serves to integrate heterogeneous operational characteristic-value acquisition units for characteristic quantities required for goods production and goods management and to control goods production is based on the management control circuit whose starting point is the production and consumption area, the separation of the business areas into production and consumption being defined through controlled, functional money management.
Production (provision of products and services) is provided by the individual businesses and business units (enterprises, public corporations, etc.). Consumption (consuming products and services) is classified under private households. The exchange of products and services between private households and the remaining individual businesses and business units occurs via the factor and goods markets. The evaluation of the goods (products and services) occurs (under the assumption of a controlled financial system) on the basis of supply and demand. The "integrated" factor combination represents the performance potential of the individual businesses and business units. The integration elements of the "integration" factor permit computer support of the factor combinations and the mapping of all the business processes by means of the business management software. The business facts, states and processes in the individual businesses and business units are thus mapped redundancy-free through the software by means of the EDP system.
g Goods and services are created in the enterprises in a known manner by the targeted combination of production factors for an existing demand on the goods and factor market, the performance potential 1 existing in the enterprise being classified in elementary factors 2 of management, human labour 3, operating material 4 (offered by the individual businesses and business units), materials 5 (offered by the individual businesses and business units), retrievable available information (6) as a kind of knowledge, as shown in Figure 1. Materials 5 (semi-finished goods, fabricated materials, accessory materials) comprises all goods that flow into goods production as variable resources. The performance potential 1 of the individual businesses becomes effective through the ability to combine elementary factors 2 (human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5 and retrievable available information 6) via an optional factor 7 which is organized and created in the respective individual business. The combination of factors, as the performance potential 1 of the enterprise, is carried out in the business units identified as "function areas". The classification of the functions to be allocated to these function areas is based on the prescribed fact combination process in the different lines of business. One essential prerequisite for the successful organization of internal and external business processes in targeted actions during goods production and in order to ensure services is the integration of the function areas and functions in the enterprise. Only with integration will the processes during the combination of factors (as repeatable work processes) be standardized through the "transmission effect" of the software and thus be "certainly"
repeatable. The required hardware, which is necessary to use the software, is allocated to the elementary factor 2, operating material 4. Integration of the information technology across all the function areas and functions requires that the classification of function areas must fulfil the demand for universal validity, whereby it must be noted that, through their weighting, the enterprise's individual lines of business may differ in their factor combinations, but can still be mapped in the same function area plan. In order to create a software, as the basic integration system for business management, which is independent of the lines of business and simultaneously specific to the lines of business, mapping the business performance process requires that to the elementary factor 2 comprising human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5, retrievable available information 6 as well as the optional factor 7, a factor integration 8 be added, which serves to record, identify and determine the consumption of value as well as to define the use of human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5 and the retrievable available information 6 in production. The effectiveness of the combination of factors depends mainly on the optional factor 7 and the achieved degree of integration of the function areas and functions.
The factor integration 8 that has an effect in the function areas works through a base element 9 as shown in Figure 2. Sub-totaled under the base element 9 or farces of integration are the smallest units of common data, facts and processes, from whose sum a "whole" is formed. The breakdown of the base element 8 is based on the requirement to trace back all the states or processes of business activity to the "smallest building blocks"
which, at the same time, are also sub-totaled elements (in an overall quantity). When the structure of the business has been traced back to no longer differentiable data and facts, then any conceivable combination in all the business processes can be mapped and joined again to form optionally designed units of technical and business states, processes and organizational structures. This ensures that these "smallest elements" of business data (facts, states, etc.) are simultaneously elements of the factor integration 8 and form the base element 9 which comprises at least two of the elements address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13, the characterizing features of the address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13 can be optionally interchanged.
The suitable information and communication technologies used to control the business processes and production processes are capable of mapping and editing these complex connections.
Examples of the characterizing features follow:
Address 10:
The clear identification of all market participants is carried out via address 10. In data f processing, this term for the "identification" of all persons, legal entities, etc. permits the allocation of all business processes. The factor human labour 3 is also directly recorded via address 10. Address 10 identifies all market participants (supplier, customer, etc.), enterprise divisions, departments, etc. right down to the employees. Thus all location- and name-related information can be stored centrally and redundancy-free at a single location and edited, stored and retrieved as data, voice and images for the information and communication technology.
Article 11:
The object of all business activity is goods (products and services). These goods (including public goods) must be clearly identified in data processing; this process is called article identification. The term article 11 is used to identify all operating material 4 (including land and capital) as well as materials 5 and retrievable available information 6, and the performance (task, work process, scheduling, etc.) involved in the production process is also recorded via article 11. Even human labour 3 provided as a service and used as a factor is recorded and edited via article identification 11. Thus all the products (including semi-finished goods and accessory materials, etc.) to be recorded in the production process or in sales as goods, as well as services that are objects of business activity and cost and performance accounting are recorded with article 11. The time to be charged or the overhead to be distributed using "apportionment formulae", etc.
must also, according to this definition, be edited under the identification of "article no. logic" in article 11. With the exception of the optional factor 7, all performance factors are recorded via article identification 11 and thus can be recognized, i.e.
recorded, by data processing.
Conditions 12:
The influences on article 11 are called conditions 12. These include the physical quantities in the various units and the measurable influences on the article 11. The influences are allocated as influence factors to article 11 via parameterizable "formulae"
(as states that can be duplicated by calculation), as required. As a result, the physical and measurable effects on article 11 become calculable and, thus, accessible far data processing. The special "address conditions" resulting from the combination of article 11 and address 10 are also recorded via conditions 12 and taken into account in all the processes that affect these combinations, thus also the evaluation of performance consumption in the work processes, tasks or activities. The same applies to conditions 12 that are valid for certain processes or interlinkings (from address 10 ->
article 11 ->
process 13) and the "special conditions" which require particular attention here. From the elements of integration 10 to 11, optional states can be depicted which, out of the numerous theoretical connections, are valid based on "special conditions" and can thus be clearly set out in the software programs.
Process 13:
The description of factor combinations is carried out via process 13. Each business action is carried out under firmly defined or freely designable (innovative) process types. The rules established by a higher authority (statutory or corporate) concerning goods traffic or the universally valid directives (such as laws and official regulations) governing active or passive behaviour within the enterprise (internal) and on the market (external) are mapped via process 13. Sub-listed under the term "external processes" are all the rules (laws, official regulations, etc.) and regulations (freely designable agreements) with the economic region and market participants outside the enterprise. The external processes also apply to the information and goods exchange processes defined voluntarily or bindingly or set out in standards (universally applicable, e.g. EDIFACT, SEDAS, CCG
standards, etc.) by the market participants. Internally acquired know-how (patents, trade marks and copyrights) as well as rights and patents utilized by external market participants are also integrated in the performance process of the enterprise via process 13. The factor combinations occurring in the enterprise as well as the optional tasks to be carried out by the senior levels are compiled under the term "internal processes" in process 13. In order to control the factor combinations in the enterprise, systems are used for recording production data, computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and for production planning and control. The necessary organizational descriptions and the technical integration of all the production aggregates in the information technology (via interfaces) are defined and physically realized through the integration element "internal processes" in process 13, so too the description of person-related tasks, work stations and work processes. The utilization and use of operating material 4 in the respective special combination (according to the state-of the-art and the available infrastructure) in the individual businesses and business units for the respective goods production are described or set out through process 13. All the processes and rules between the market participants and between the function areas or functions in the enterprise are recorded in reality through process 13 based on the actual situation. The greater the degree of mapping that is achieved, the lower the friction losses (caused by data processing) between the market participants and the enterprise's lines of business in the production process.
Recording the material consumption in goods production using the software of the base integration system occurs in the same way as human labour 3 and operating material 4 through address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13.
As shown in Figure 3, the goods offered on the markets are created from the combination of performance potential l, the elementary factor 2 and the base element 9 in the enterprises, individual businesses and business units. At the time of observation, the performance potential 1 of an enterprise is considered to be given.
Improvement in performance is, however, still the permanent task of management. Thus the necessity of optimizing the deployment of individual performance factors. Technical progress and international division of labour permit management to change the factor combination in the enterprise over time and to increase its competitiveness. The development of the factor prices on the markets and, thus, in the enterprises, is the primary reason for the changes in the structure of the factor combinations. The combination of factors, as the interlinking of the elementary factor 2 as human labour 3, operating material (aggregates, machines, site), materials 5 (including raw materials, accessory materials, operating materials), retrievable available information 6, control this process through management of the optional activity 7 (optional factor 7) and integration 8 occurs, according to the prescribed production function, as EDP mapping in the function areas of management and controlling by means of time management 14, goods management /
cost accounting and finances 15 through the base element 9 with address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13, a goods production process / goods management process 16 (goods manufacture) in the form of the manufactured products 17.
The factor combinations (in the goods production process / goods management process 16) in Figure 3 show that the performance potential 1 of the enterprise (capacities of human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5, retrievable available information 6) in combination with the performance of the factor integration 8 via this base element 9, address 10 and article 11, conditions 12 and process 13 is mapped according to process sequence and cost accounting. The types of performance: amount of work, use of operating material as well as consumed materials, which flow into the goods production process / goods management process 16 can be determined in real-time through data processing and can be delimited in the performance process from department to department. The measurable and physical projection of individual work processes, machine performance and materials consumption in the goods production process must be directly attributed to the cost account of the respective department. Thus the integrated software of the base integration system ensures that the expenses incurred by the production process are attributed to the cost account in real-time and online, making the "actual costs" of the individual goods transparent at any time. This mapping process of the goods production in the information system must be broken down into criteria specific to the lines of business. Breaking down the enterprise into groups, types and different lines of business is carried out subject to configuring a software specific to the lines of business of the base integration system for the enterprise using the application.
According to Figure 4, the principle of the EDP system for enterprise management is shown as a mapping of the goods production process / goods management process with heterogeneous individual businesses / business units 18 of an enterprise comprising, for instance, units of management, research and development, financial department, advertisement, quality assurance system, incoming and outgoing goods, stockkeeping, human resources and production, etc. which, through heterogeneous data connections 19, are partially connected to characteristic value acquisition and control units for controlling and monitoring goods production which, through their logical model, can be shown as a base element 9, in that the performance potential 1 of the individual businesses and business units 18 can be formed by the elementary factors 2 such as human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5, retrievable available information 6, which work with the integration 8 via an optional factor 7, and the base element 9, which comprises at least two elements of the address 10, article 11, conditions 12 and process 13, the characterizing features of the elements capable of being interchangeably used, whereby the data connections 19 allocated to a goods production process / goods management process 16 are connected, via a specific integration element 20, individually and/or jointly with others to a base integration system 22 via specific interfaces 21, the base integration system 22 comprising a software 23 and a known computer system 24. This base integration system 22, using the software 23, permits the goods production process goods management process 16 to be mapped in real-time, the software 23 permits the allocation of the base element 9 to the individual businesses / business units 18, the base element 9 is actively connected in real-time to the allocated characteristic-value acquisition and control units via the specific integration element 20 and the specific data connections 19, the base elements 9 in their entirety map this goods production process /
goods management process 16 so adequately that their control and monitoring is provided by directives from an intelligent control system 25. The intelligent control system 25 is connected by a cable (a) to the base integration system 22. Information in real-time is provided by the intelligent control system 25 as data records that are converted into signals and vice versa from signals into data records, which is carned out, using directives from it for the goods production process / goods management process 16, by the computer 26, through a software layer 27 and through a connecting element 28 by means of a software; the software layer 27 and the connecting element 28 together with the internal software may form an integral part of the computer system 24), and the intelligent control system 25, by means of the computer 26, the software layer 27 and the connecting element 28, interacts with the base integration system 22 and the specific integration element 20 via the data connections 19 with the individual businesses /
business units 18 in such a way that the performance potential 1 of the individual businesses / business units 18 is identified by elementary factors 2 and available as a data record in the intelligent control system 25, and makes a selection of directives for positively influencing the goods production process / goods management process 16 and then controls the goods production process / goods management process 16 by means of the aforementioned data flow and active connections with the objective of a profit-oriented and process-oriented management of the goods production process /
goods management process 16, which is specified by the elementary factors 2, human labour 3, operating material 4, materials 5 and retrievable available information 6 and whose ability to be combined depends on an optional factor 7 and an integration 8.
According to Figure 5, technically the EDP system for business management is realized on different levels and in different modules that are connected with one another via permanently defined interfaces and are thus interchangeable, without affecting the other modules.
A presentation / interaction 29 serves as an interface to human labour 3, receives input from it and provides it with the determined results. It communicates with an application 31 via a permanently defined interface I 30. The application 31 contains the operational flow logic and carnes out the actions requested by human labour 3. To this end, it communicates with a data management system 33 via an interface II 32. The data management system 33 accesses an internal database 35 via an interface III 34 or accesses a remote (external) database 37 via an interface IV 36 and via this interface provides the application 31 with the data required for processing or it downloads the data determined by the application 31 into the internal database 35 or into the external database 37.
The permanently defined interface I 30 permits the module presentation /
interaction 29 to be exchanged without affecting the other levels and modules. Thus, text presentations and graphic presentations are interchangeable without having to change the application 31. Similarly, the firm definition of the interface II 32 permits the data management system to be exchanged without affecting the other levels and modules. The interface I 29 to human labour 3 and the type of data maintenance can be changed in this way, without having to change the other components.
In order to integrate the aggregates used in the production of the goods and services, a high level application interface 39 addresses the application 31 via an interface V 38. This is not operating-material-specific, but rather provides a higher-level quantity of functions that can request the application 31 from the aggregates used in the production of goods and services. Via an interface VI 41, the high-level application interface 39 accesses an operating-material-specific communication to operating materials 42 which controls the operating materials 4 via an interface VII 43. The operating materials 4 may be optionally controllable aggregates such as scales, scanners, high-shelf storage or tubular tracks. A
control message manager 40 is an autonomous layer around the presentation /
interaction 29, the application 31, the data management system 33, the high-level application interface 39 and the interfaces 30, 32, 34, 35 and 38. It intercepts the messages from the different modules and interfaces and directs them to the addressed module which processes the message accordingly.
f Terminology:
1 Performance potential 2 Elementary factor 3 Human labour 4 Operating materials Materials 6 Retrievable available information 7 Optional factor 8 Integration 9 Base element Address 11 Article 12 Condition 13 Process 14 Time management Goods management / cost accounting and finances 16 Goods production process / goods management process 17 Product 18 Individual business / business unit 19 Data connection Specific integration element 21 Specific interface 22 Base integration system 23 Software 24 Computer system Intelligent control system 26 Computer 27 Software layer 28 Connecting element 29 Presentation / interaction s 30 Interface I between presentation / interaction and application 31 Application 32 Interface II between application and data management system 33 Data management system 34 Interface III between data management system and internal database 35 Internal database 36 Interface IV between data management system and external database 37 External database 38 Interface V between application and high-level application interface 39 High-level application interface 40 Control message manager 41 Interface VI between the high-level application interface and the communication to operating materials 42 Communication to operating materials 43 Interface VII between the communication operating materials and the operating materials a Connection
Claims (15)
1. EDP system for business management, in which the whole business process is integrated in the EDP, comprising a computer system (24), an intelligent control system (25), a goods production process / goods management process (16) and a base integration system (22) that is allocated to the computer system (24) and connected to the intelligent control system (25) via a connection (a) and connected to the goods production process / goods management process (16) via a special interface (21); the base integration system (22) comprising an operational software application (31) and a software (23) that secures the allocation of a base element (9) to individual businesses / business units (18); the computer system (24) and the intelligent control system (25) receiving, in real-time, goods production process / goods management process (16) information which is directly available to the computer system (24) and, via a connection (a), available to the control system (25) in the form of data records that are converted into signals and, vice versa, from signals into data records that are provided with directives from the intelligent control system (25) concerning the goods production process /
goods management process (16), whose interlinking is carried out by the computer (26) by means of a software layer (27) and a connecting element (28) to the software;
the software layer (27) and the connecting element (28) together with the internal software may form an integral part of the computer system (24), and the intelligent control system (25), by means of the computer (26), the software layer (27) and the connecting element (28), interacts with the base integration system (22) and the specific integration element (20) via the data connections (19) with the individual businesses / business units (18) in such a way that the performance potential (1) of the individual businesses / business units (18) is identified by elementary factors (2) and present as a data record in the intelligent control system (25), and makes a selection of directives for positively influencing the goods production process / goods management process (16) and controls the goods production process / goods management process (16) by means of the aforementioned data flow and active connections with the objective of a profit-oriented and process-oriented management of the goods production process /
goods management process (16), which is specified by the elementary factors (2), human labour (3), operating material (4), materials (5) and retrievable available information (6) and whose ability to be combined depends on an optional factor (7) and an integration (8), which acts via the base element (9), the base element (9) to be broken down into the "smallest building blocks" which are simultaneously sub-totalling elements in the form of addresses (10), articles (11), conditions (12) and processes (13) that interact reciprocally and can be interchangeably deployed.
goods management process (16), whose interlinking is carried out by the computer (26) by means of a software layer (27) and a connecting element (28) to the software;
the software layer (27) and the connecting element (28) together with the internal software may form an integral part of the computer system (24), and the intelligent control system (25), by means of the computer (26), the software layer (27) and the connecting element (28), interacts with the base integration system (22) and the specific integration element (20) via the data connections (19) with the individual businesses / business units (18) in such a way that the performance potential (1) of the individual businesses / business units (18) is identified by elementary factors (2) and present as a data record in the intelligent control system (25), and makes a selection of directives for positively influencing the goods production process / goods management process (16) and controls the goods production process / goods management process (16) by means of the aforementioned data flow and active connections with the objective of a profit-oriented and process-oriented management of the goods production process /
goods management process (16), which is specified by the elementary factors (2), human labour (3), operating material (4), materials (5) and retrievable available information (6) and whose ability to be combined depends on an optional factor (7) and an integration (8), which acts via the base element (9), the base element (9) to be broken down into the "smallest building blocks" which are simultaneously sub-totalling elements in the form of addresses (10), articles (11), conditions (12) and processes (13) that interact reciprocally and can be interchangeably deployed.
2. EDP system for business management according to Claim 1, characterized in that the EDP is integrated business-wide and networked via data connections (19).
3. EDP system for business management according to Claims 1 and 2, characterized in that by EDP-specific integration of complex heterogeneous individual businesses /
business units (18) via specific interfaces (21), the integration of communications and the standard software for presentation / interaction (29) via specific interfaces into the operational software application, online and real-time recording of characteristic business values is carried out by means of production data acquisition units. Via interfaces (34), (36), these are arranged as data and stored and administered in internal and external databases (35), (37) as well as handled through processes (13) of the implemented business models and are used as results to control the goods production process / goods management process (16).
business units (18) via specific interfaces (21), the integration of communications and the standard software for presentation / interaction (29) via specific interfaces into the operational software application, online and real-time recording of characteristic business values is carried out by means of production data acquisition units. Via interfaces (34), (36), these are arranged as data and stored and administered in internal and external databases (35), (37) as well as handled through processes (13) of the implemented business models and are used as results to control the goods production process / goods management process (16).
4. EDP system for business management according to Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the business model as an additional elementary factor (2) is considered to be an integration.
5. EDP system for business management according to Claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the administratively heterogeneous individual businesses / business units (18), through their logical model of integration (8), are depicted as base elements (9) suitable for data processing.
6. EDP system for business management according to Claims 1 to 5, characterized in that throughout the enterprise, the base elements (9) are uniformly restricted to a minimum number of elements, which permits the base elements (9) to ensure a redundancy-free mapping of the characteristic business values of the integration (8) of the goods production processes / goods management processes (16) in the respective business units (18).
7. EDP system for business management according to Claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the number of processes (13) of the implemented business models are uniformly reduced to the elementary fundamental processes between and within the elements of the base element (9) throughout the enterprise, thus ensuring a minimum number of redundancy-free processes (13).
8. EDP system for business management according to Claims 1 to 7, characterized in that throughout the enterprise, the specific interfaces I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
(30), (32), (34), (36), (38), (41), (43) of the EDP are uniformly realized through a modular shell structure independent of the system.
(30), (32), (34), (36), (38), (41), (43) of the EDP are uniformly realized through a modular shell structure independent of the system.
9. EDP system for business management according to Claims 1 to 8, characterized in that, using the addresses (10) all the internal and external, legal entities and individuals and units, using the article (11) all tangible assets, using the conditions (12) all the parameters with respect to pricing and processes (13), and using the processes (13) all the possible interlinkings between and outside the elements are mapped uniformly throughout the enterprise.
10. EDP system for business management according to Claim 9, characterized in that the element addresses (10) uniformly comprises:
representatives, suppliers, customers, departments, employees, business branches, business headquarters, ...
representatives, suppliers, customers, departments, employees, business branches, business headquarters, ...
11. EDP system for business management according to Claim 9, characterized in that the element article (11) uniformly comprises:
materials, operating materials, accessory materials, merchandise, sales items, semi-finished goods, equipment, ...
materials, operating materials, accessory materials, merchandise, sales items, semi-finished goods, equipment, ...
12. EDP system for business management according to Claim 9, characterized in that the element conditions (12) uniformly comprises:
prices, deductions, surcharges, calculated costs, price deductions, ...
prices, deductions, surcharges, calculated costs, price deductions, ...
13. EDP system for business management according to Claim 9, characterized in that the element process (13) uniformly comprises:
the operational interactions in addresses (10) (e.g. customer A and representative B), in articles (11) (e.g. recipes), in conditions (12) (e.g. priority when calculating the conditions), between addresses (10) and articles (11) (e.g. customer order), between addresses (10) and conditions (12) (e.g. premium), between articles (11) and conditions (12) (e.g. bulk discount).
the operational interactions in addresses (10) (e.g. customer A and representative B), in articles (11) (e.g. recipes), in conditions (12) (e.g. priority when calculating the conditions), between addresses (10) and articles (11) (e.g. customer order), between addresses (10) and conditions (12) (e.g. premium), between articles (11) and conditions (12) (e.g. bulk discount).
14. EDP system for business management according to Claim 9, characterized in that, for the connection between a first and a second interface layer, the individual modules of the shell structure of the interfaces I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
(30), (32), (34), (36), (38), (41), (43) each have two interface-specific components that are connected via an enterprise-wide uniform inner interface layer so that, in the event of an adaptation of an interface module to a modified interface layer, only one component need be adapted.
(30), (32), (34), (36), (38), (41), (43) each have two interface-specific components that are connected via an enterprise-wide uniform inner interface layer so that, in the event of an adaptation of an interface module to a modified interface layer, only one component need be adapted.
15. EDP system for business management according to Claim 9, characterized in that, a control message manager (40), as an autonomous layer, surrounds the presentation / interaction (29), the application (31), the data management system (33), the high-level application interface (39) and the interfaces I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII (30), (32), (34), (36), (38), (41) and (43), and which captures messages from the different modules and interfaces and transmits them to the addresses module, which then processes the message accordingly.
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