Visibility plays an important role in supply chain management. Such visibility is not only important for better planning, but especially for real-time execution related with the traceability of goods. In inbound supply chain management, logistics planners need to trace raw materials from their requests in order to properly plan a plant’s production. The iFloW (Inbound Logistics Tracking System) integrates logis...
Conducting research and development (R&D) software projects, in an environment where both industry and university collaborate, is challenging due to many factors. In fact, industrial companies and universities have generally different interests and objectives whenever they collaborate. For this reason, it is not easy to manage and negotiate the industrial companies’ interests, namely schedules and their expecta...
Dado que as organizações se regem por processos de negócio, é emergente a necessidade de o desenvolvimento do sistema de informação de uma organização seja direccionado para suportar esses processos. Durante um processo de desenvolvimento de sistemas de informação são conhecidas várias abordagens e metodologias com o objectivo de este seja obtido com cada vez maior acréscimo de qualidade. Essa qualidade deve-se...