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Response to question 1:
The SIMATIC IT Preactor or SIMATIC IT Preactor Advanced Planning and Scheduling is
utilized by both small as well as large organizations for flexible production of solutions of
advanced scheduling and planning in mixed process and discrete environments for the
achievement of agile and lean targets (Lewandowski et al. 2014). Preactor International becomes
one of the World Leader in the context of software of scheduling and planning of productions.
This particular software is utilized by more than four thousand organizations of broad ranges for
the achievement of their respective goals (Rodič et al. 2015). Several kinds of benefits could be
achieved by installing as kits installation in turn offers a return in the investment which is
measured in weeks or in months sometimes.
A count of over thousand professionals who are accredited help in offering an important
source which would work in close contact with the users for ensuring necessary requirements of
every single organization are met in a very systematic manner. It is basically a solution for
planning of the production based on all its constraints (Kumar et al. 2014). It also involves shop
floor scheduling. It helps the manufacturers in responding in very fast towards the changes which
are naturally unexpected along with satisfying the demands of the customers within much shorter
lead times. It helps in the improvement of the synchronization of several procedures of
manufacturing and also helps in providing greater visibilities for the increment of the usage
along with timely delivery.
At the same time it helps in the reduction of waste along with levels of inventory as well.
It is a kind of strategic decision tool which is designed for the aim of aiding the users in mid as
well as long term planning. At the same time, it forms an interactive and a scheduling system for
handling of multiple constraints and providing support for making of several kinds of decisions
for the aim of prioritization of the orders, batches of production, processing of orders, overtime
along with the negotiation of due dates (Piengang et al. 2019). This involves several kinds of
processes with means of which the capacity of production and raw materials get allocated in an
optimal manner for meeting the demands.
It is associated to those environments where simple kinds of methods of planning fails in
addressing the complicated trade-offs among the competing priorities. It is built of several

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powerful features where users are allowed for building a custom solution. It helps in handling of
the raw materials in a professional manner and constraints could be modelled in an advanced
manner. It involves assembly process visualization along with advanced optimization of the
schedules. Success stories of this particular software comprises of Elmwood Reclaimed Timber
where this particular software was utilized for improvement of timely delivery for the
enhancement of the customer experience (Liu et al. 2014). This was utilized for avoiding manual
scheduling along with firefighting because of visibility of short term. This software helped in
overcoming the limits of scheduling of the ongoing system of ERP. With the utilization of this
software, this company was able to improve the planning of its production as well as scheduling.
The utilization of this software also helped in efficient utilization of the all the resources
along with the timely delivery of the wooden products as this organization is the marketer as well
as the manufacturer of higher quality reclaimed wooden products. These wooden products
strictly adhere to the standards for embracing the deep respects for the environment of the
company. With the utilization of this software, there was an occurrence of increment in the
revenues of top line by ten percent in the year 2016 (Resende et al. 2014). The output of the
production also got increased without the increment in the headcount. The products started being
delivered on time.
The competitors of this software comprises of Asprova APS, FactoryFour etc. as Factory
Four is a modern software which is constructed from the grounds to become intuitive for
utilization and for the interaction of the human. Asprova APS creates schedules of production at
higher speeds for numerous items and numerous processes, purchase and inventory plans etc. for
empowering of the achievement of the business goals (Dupláková et al. 2017). It also helps in
the creation of manufacturing as well as sales which is fully integrated.
Response to question 2:
E-commerce or electronic-commerce is referred to as the buying as well as selling of
services and goods as well. It could also be referred to as the transmitting of data or funds over
any electronic network, which is basically the internet. These kinds of transactions of business
takes place in the form of various kinds of business models (KANDUČ et al. 2015). Various
kinds of business models comprises of B2B or business-to-business, C2C or consumer-to-