Student needing some questions answered about Manufacturing Scheduling software

Greetings;
I am a undergraduate senior at Arizona State University majoring in Supply Chain Management. I am currently doing a project about Oracle's Manufacturing Scheduling option and have a few general questions for those of you that have used the software and/or involved with its implementation. Your help is greatly appreciated. If you are uncomfortable releasing your company's name that is fine. If you do not want to post the answers here, I can also be emailed at rmkraus"SAYNOTOSPAMBOTS"@asu.edu. Thank you!!
The questions I have are:
What is your experience with the manufacturing scheduling software?
What is/was your role with the software?(ie buyer, consultant, user, technical support, etc)
How do you feel about the software's ease of use?
What training did you recieve or did your company offer?
How much did implementing the software approxiamately cost?
What do you feel are the advantages of the software?
What do you feel are the disadvantages of the software?
Did your company have any problems during the implementation?
Has your company experienced cost savings due to the software?
Have you or your company used any competing software in the past?
Any other insight that you would like to share?
Thank you, I greatly appreciate your help.

Im not sure on 5
I know it's unusual, but if your project budget is
good you may have more than one constructor. At least
that's what I thoughtach.. you poor fellow, you are confused now aren't you.
i bet taht in the fifth question they are talking about 'constructor methods', not procrammers who are constructing the code (or 'contractors')
if your budget allws then you may even have three or 87 contractors, but that's not the case here.
i hope that clarifies things a bit.
and PS! i don't like when people intentionally give bad solutions to others.

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The problem you are describing is a known issue with Videora. The author of the software even posted that problem on their website:
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I do appreciate your insights aspalex, but the tests I have done here do not seem to indicate this to be true about the AIF file and the AC3 sounding identical. I mean, how could they, one file is 45 MB and the other, the AC3 has been reduced to 5 MB!! Something has to give, and I can hear the difference. Now if I go and set all the levels higher in FCP then maybe the AC3 will be at the same level. I have never cared much for Dolby for this reason, it is doing some sort of compression to get that file so small. I remember back when I had a Kenwood tape player in my old semi-automatic Honda Accord (yeah, that was some kinda car :P ) and it had a Dolby button, before you pressed the button for Dolby you could hear the treble real good (as well as the static), after pressing the Dolby button, the sound was more "muted" but the static was gone. It seems the same thing is happening here.
So perhaps it is more an issue of DVD player compatibility overall. If someone says to me that if I use PCM it will fail in my old Apex DVD player but not in the new Sony DVD player, and if I use AC3 it will never fail in any drive, then that would definitely swing the vote in favor of AC3.
I can definitely understand someone using AC3 if space is a serious issue because the files are definitely smaller, and the quality loss is indeed very small (though I can still hear it) and that would help tremendously (such as Javier72 on his 8 GB DVD!). However, in my case space is not an issue at all, I just have 2.2 GB, and I want maximum quality on video and audio. But if I MUST use AC3 simply for the sake of player compatibility then I will.
Does that make sense? Am I missing something important?
Thanks to all,
Paul

Student needing some questions answered about Manufacturing Scheduling software

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