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The acquisition of a business software solution is a very strategic project for companies. It is a process that involves many stakeholders, internal and external ones, and last for a couple months. The aim of our study is to develop a decision support tool for the evaluation of different Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution alternatives for a company operating in the steel industry. The tool is based on a Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method called PAPRIKA. The competing solutions/suppliers were evaluated based on criteria related to the different solution functionalities, market references, Industry Expertise, Ease of Use and Ease of Integration. In order to make the process much convenient for the company subject to our case study, we used a software solution that implemented PAPRIKA. The ranking of the different competing solutions was provided and different criteria weights were calculated. Moreover, the performance of each solution against each criterion has also been demonstrated.
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Aramja, A., Kamach, O. (2022). Decision Support Tool for Manufacturing Execution Systems: Case Study from the Steel Industry. In: Kacprzyk, J., Balas, V.E., Ezziyyani, M. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD’2020). AI2SD 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1417. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90633-7_35
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