The GM-EDS Solution
GM’s Integrated Scheduling project is designed to replace 30 different materials and scheduling systems with one integrated system to handle inventory, manufacturing, and financial data
==> Factory managers can receive orders from the car divisions for the number and type of vehicles to build and then can create an estimated 20-week manufacturing
schedule for GM and its suppliers.
The system also sends suppliers schedules each morning on what materials need to be delivered to what docks at what hour during that manufacturing day.
GM also tried robots which turned out to be a disaster