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In Canada, most manufacturing companies are small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that produce one-of-a-kind products. They are typical one-of-a-kind production (OKP) companies. As discussed in Sect. 3.4.1, the logic error of separating bill of material (BOM) and bill of operation (BOO) in current MRP II (manufacturing resource planning) or ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems makes these systems difficultly implemented in these SMEs. These SMEs commonly believe that both MRP II and ERP systems have very little benefit to them. Therefore, they are implementing Lean production techniques to manage and control their production, and aim to improve the production efficiency and hence the competitive ability against keen competitions from overseas.
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Tu, Y., Dean, P. (2011). One-of-a-Kind Production Management and Control Software System©. In: One-of-a-Kind Production. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-531-6_8
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