INFORMATION-SYSTEMS DESIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT - A CONCEPTUAL-APPROACH

Industrial systems have long ago passed the level where they could be controlled by unaided humans. The development of human factors enginee ring has reflected the technological development, particularly as it i s represented in the transition from manual tasks through supervisory tasks to planning tasks. In this paper the design requirements of an i nformation system for inventory management are investigated, applied o n a case study for lot size calculation. Current trends in basic requi rements of the design at the syntactic level of the system are reviewe d; however, since it is no longer considered sufficient to exclusively examine the syntactical aspects of the system, this study is concerne d with the development of a conceptual framework of a modelling enviro nment for inventory management, which takes into account semantic/cogn itive characteristics of the user/manager.