This book aims to provide practical assistance to those who are responsible for organizing and supporting IT in manufacturing companies. There are countless publications on the topic of "PPS - Production Planning and Control." This book focuses on the area of production control and is innovative in that it attempts to introduce new aspects into the design of manufacturing information systems and the organization of production and its environment by considering the underlying "control engineering" perspective, including dynamic time behavior and transfer behavior. This approach can accelerate the implementation of objectives, the management of orders, and the handling of operational disruptions. The practical design guidelines, as well as the general v.