El sector cerámico español: Una oportunidad de negocio para empresas de servicios de consultoría ERP

The Spanish ceramic industry: a business opportunity for ERP consultant services enterprises The ceramic industry is a strategic sector in Spain, which is losing market share to the production of emerging countries. To gain competitive advantage over other countries competing in cost , one of the opportunities for improvement of the ceramic industry in Spain , is to increase and optimize the use of ICT. However, there is currently no developed systems that provide appropriate to the specific problems of the ceramic sector solution. Therefore, a business opportunity arises for companies that provide consulting services for the implementation of informationsystems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP). To do this, first we need to know the industry and its specific problems, with the goal of developing a suitable ERP. This paper identifies such business opportunity and presents one of the more specific problems of the sector, which is not implemented in any ERP system. Then, ERP consulting services companies will have the knowledge of the problem and they will be able to develop an appropriate solution.<br><br>El sector cerámico es un sector estratégico en España, que está perdiendo cuota de mercado ante la producción de países emergentes. Para conseguir ventaja competitiva frente a otros países que compiten en coste, una de las oportunidades de mejora del sector cerámico en España, es incrementar y optimizar el empleo de las TIC. Sin embargo, actualmente no hay sistemas desarrollados que den solución adecuada a los problemas específicos del sector cerámico.Por tanto, surge una oportunidad de negocio para empresas que ofrecen servicios de consultoría de implantación de sistemas de información, como son los Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Para ello, en primer lugar es necesario conocer el sector, y sus problemáticas concretas, con el objetivo de desarrollar un ERP adecuado. Este artículo identifica dicha oportunidad de negocio y presenta una de las problemáticas más específicas del sector, que no está implementada en ningún sistema ERP, con el objetivo de que las empresas de servicios de consultoría ERP la conozcan y sean capaces de desarrollar una solución adecuada

Modelo de trasvase indirecto de opciones de fabricación entre organizaciones: Una aplicación a la industria cerámica

In the current competitive contexts, it is widely accepted and proved that inter-enterprise collaboration lead in many occasions to better results. The Spanish ceramic industry must improve, dropping its manufacturing costs in order to be able to compete with low cost products coming from Asia. In this sense, this work presents the main results obtained from applying an innovative model, which facilitates the transfer of manufacturing options between two ceramic enterprises that share a common supplier in the scenario where one of them needs more manufacturing capacity than the one booked according to its demand forecast and the another need less. Then, some decisional mechanisms are applied, which output the values for certain parameters in order to augment the benefit of all the three participants. With the application of this model better organisational results both economic and of service level are achieved.En los contextos actuales de competitividad es ampliamente aceptado que la colaboración entre empresas conduce muchas veces a mejores resultados. Además, la industria cerámica española debe mejorar y reducir los costes de sus procesos de fabricación para así poder competir con los productos de menor coste que provienen principalmente de países asiáticos. En este sentido, este trabajo presenta los resultados de aplicar un modelo innovador para facilitar el trasvase indirecto de opciones de fabricación entre dos empresas fabricantes cerámicas competidoras que comparten un mismo proveedor de productos, cuando una de ellas necesita más capacidad de fabricación de la que reservó en base a sus previsiones de demanda y la otra tiene un excedente. Así, se desarrollan una serie de mecanismos decisionales los cuales proporcionan los valores que deben tomar ciertos parámetros para aumentar el beneficio de todos los participantes en el proceso. Con la aplicación de este modelo se alcanzan mejores resultados empresariales tanto económicos como de nivel de servicio

Critical success factors on ERP implementations: A bibliometric analysis

This work presents a bibliometric analysis of the influential authors, institutions, papers and countries on the field of Enterprise Resource Planning implementations and their Critical Success Factors based on the Web of Science database with 301 articles belonging to 86 Universities and Institutions from 48 different countries. The research has been conducted from 1999 to end of 2017

Towards a Data Classification Model for Circular Product Life Cycle Management

Nowadays, due to the limited availability of resources, the adoption of sustainable practices is gaining importance, especially while dealing with the manufacturing sector that is considered one of the most resource greedy sectors. To cope with this issue, a new sustainable and industrial economy, called “circular economy” arisen. The diffusion of this economy can be eased by the advance management of data and information. Nevertheless, from the extant literature emerged some criticalities regarding information management flows while dealing with circular economy strategies adoption. Indeed, the present work aims to first identify the main criticalities in information management while adopting circular economy principles, and second to investigate the decisions, and the related data and information required to make these decisions, that manufacturers have to undertake to enable the circular product life cycle management. To achieve this goal, the present work relies on the scientific literature. This choice enables to grasp the widespread knowledge developed by scholars about these concepts, by individualizing the main decisions that should be taken by the company internal stakeholders, to manage circular products, being affected by external stakeholders’ behaviours and decisions along product life cycle. Therefore, this work aims to support circular product life cycles management and, this objective has been achieved through the development of a data classification model