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Vol 29 - No 04 - June 2003

Editorial: The Abridged History of Computerised Planning Systems

David Maguire,

In the beginning there were Bill of Materials processors, originally developed by IBM in the 1960’s.

They were simple loop queries that extrapolated the requirements of an assembly and gave a listing of all the parts required to manufacture a predetermined number of the assembly.


Page number: 4
Word count: 2200

Related Topics:
Enterprise resource planning
Material requirements planning
Planning and scheduling

 

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