Advanced planning and scheduling (APS) and enterprise planning system (ERP) planning reference models for Personal Computer assembly industry: A process perspective

Faced with fierce market competition, the life cycle of computer products is shorter than other products which caused the supply and demand changing quickly. If the PC assembly industries still adopted ERP for material planning, it cannot response to customer’s demands swiftly. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) system. The goal of APS is to solve a complicated supply chain planning and scheduling question. This study discussed the related issues of APS system implementation for Personal Computer (PC) assembly industry and developed an implementation process of APS system. The research applied ARIS’s EPC model to establish the reference planning models of APS and ERP from the process perspective. Finally, we proposed the integration of APS and ERP reference model to information system implementation for the PC assembly industry.