Business process re-engineering tools offer techniques to model the enterprise and identify opportunities to make change. This book examines the approaches, tools and techniques which support redesign of the enterprise to achieve world class performance.

Autorentext
David O'Sullivan is the author of a number of books on manufacturing including. He has published over 100 research articles from a number of research projects with industry in the fields of manufacturing strategy and innovation management. David has worked with many multinational companies including Hewlett Packard, Ingersoll-Rand and IBM. He lectures at the National University of Ireland where he also leads a research team in the field of knowledge management applications that support innovation in industry.

Inhalt
1 Planning centres new conception for re-engineering activities in non-producing areas.- 2 Re-engineering through fractal structures.- 3 Software benchmark design and use.- 4 Requirements, methods and research issues for modeling the product realization process.- 5 Application of information technology in the redesign and implementation of business processes.- 6 Re-engineering the sales department.- 7 Re-engineering inter company processes through partnership networks.- 8 How benchmarking supports re-engineering.- 9 The logic of enterprise modeling.- 10 General concepts of a manufacturing system engineering workbench as tool for the re-engineering of manufacturing systems.- 11 The application of generic process models in business process re-engineering.- 12 Library based modeling of process chains.- 13 High level process modelling: a key feature of any BPR project.- 14 Investment-based analysis of IT-enabled business process re-engineering.- 15 Simultaneous change.- 16 Business process re-engineering for small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises.- 17 Self assessment a tool for business process re-engineering.- 18 A manufacturing business process re-engineering method: design and redesign of a production control model.- 19 Bottleneck-oriented logistics analysis as a basis for business re-engineering.- 20 Measuring and re-engineering logistics chains in the construction industry.- 21 Logistics performance measurement an application to pulp and paper industry.- 22 A comprehensive methodology for factory modeling.- 23 BPR in the production system, methodology and results.- 24 An introduction to a process engineering approach and a case study illustration of its utility.- 25 Design of activities in shop floor management: a holistic approach to organisationat operational business levels in BPR projects.- 26 The use of the GRAT method in re-engineering.- 27 GRAT approach: a methodology for re-engineering the manufacturing enterprise.- 28 Process monitoring for continuous improvement.- 29 Process assessment and simulation games methods and software supported tools in business process re-engineering.- 30 Integrated resourse and order monitoring.- 31 A system solution to concurrent process planning and workshop control.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.