The planning flexibility bottleneck in food processing industries
研究了食品加工业中生产规划灵活性受限于组织流程而非仅生产特性，提出一个分析规划灵活性的框架，帮助规划者识别并解决瓶颈。
Abstract Production planners in food processing industries must continuously balance efficient production with flexible performance. On the basis of case studies, we state that flexibility is not only restrained by hard‐wired production process characteristics, but also by organizational procedures in the planning process. Planning practice in food processing industries is often not able to make the most of the available flexibility in the production processes, and our analysis shows that existing production planning approaches, ERP systems, and advanced planning systems can only partly resolve this. We propose a planning framework that can help to analyze the flexibility of the planning. The planning framework relates planning events to the way in which planning decisions are structured in the planning organization.