Patent Document ID: 20130190913
Application ID: 13593926
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for production management for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and a manufacturing execution system (MES), the MES containing a production management system, a production scheduler and an event processor, the method comprises the steps of: a) transmitting an order from the ERP-system to the production management system, the order containing a product to be produced, a product process, required source material and a due date of the product; b) transmitting a schedule to the production scheduler, the schedule containing at least the order of step a), a description indicating which source material is taken from an inventory and when the product will be finished; c) transmitting a notification from the production scheduler to the event processor when a production job has to be completed; d) receiving information about an expected delivery of the source material via a tracking and tracing system, the tracking and tracing system notifying the event processor on a observation of the source material or a deviation regarding delivery of the required source material; e) performing, via the event processor, a situation recognition on the observation and deviation by a function which detects situations having a influence on at least one process parameter due to the deviation of the delivery of the required source material; f) depending on the situation recognition the event processor notifies the production scheduler with the source material and expected time and served time of delivery of the source material; and g) performing, via the production scheduler, a rescheduling of production jobs by optimizing process parameters and/or by minimizing a number of required changes in the schedule based on data notified in the step f).