Enterprise Reengineering

Alfnes ErlendDr. Erlend Alfnes is a senior researcher at the Norwegianresearch organization SINTEF Technology and Society, Departmentof Operations Management. His main research interests aremanufacturing planning and control, and enterprise reengineering.

Enterprise reengineering can provide dramaticcompetitive improvements for manufacturing.This book establishes enterprise reengineering as anapproach that enables manufacturing enterprises toachieve fit between market requirements andoperations capabilities. Enterprise reengineeringis a model-based and strategy drivenapproach that enables manufacturers to realisethe "soft" or infrastructural aspects of anoperations strategy. To support such reengineeringefforts, enterprises are viewed not only from aprocess perspective but also from a resource,materials, information, organisational, and controlperspective. Modelling and analysing enterprisesfrom these perspectives can support their effort toimplement best practices, and ensure that thepractices are combined in a way that supports theoverall business strategy.The major contribution of this book is an enterprisereengineering methodology, which includes strategicplanning, and operations mapping, analysis, design,and implementation.