| The actual competitive environment pushes the firms to race for improvement in innovation, production and distribution delays. The pressure of competition forces them to be efficient on each level at the lower costs. Staying on the market is a priority. To achieve this, they need to control all the components of the company. Researchers as well as pioneers of the industry have focused on integration. However, it is hard to open up the functions and to get them to cooperate.; We wish to demonstrate in a closer way the potential gains of the integration of two decision oriented systems. Our paper purposes to study the dispatching and the production functions. These days, the integration is more often materialized in the industry by simple due dates. This system is rapidly limited. Indeed, from the moment we attempt to diminish the quantity of stock allowing the division of the two functions, management is faced with incoherence.; Our study has been carried out in the industrial context. This company produces tumble-dryers (about 5600 units a day). This paper sets out to analyze the latter aspect of the study. We purpose to bring the firms algorithms and organizational structures as a solution. They will allow the success of this integration in the goal of coupling these functions with no stock. Beyond the tool to help in decision making we have developed, we want to show that integration among functions cannot be established in a hierarchical context. It is the product of a long process of tests and errors between the decision makers, in order to reach the consensus that satisfies best their own objectives. |
