IT Support of Production Efficiency Analysis in Ecological Aspect - Technology Management for Sustainable Production and Logistics - page 200

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The size and type of
company, industry,
respondent position

Identify the basic information
of the analysed enterprise

Yes No

If IT tools
supporting production process
efficiency are used?

Analyse and identification of IT tools
supporting production process
efficiency

Identify difficulties in use of IT tools
supporting production process
efficiency

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Fig. 1 Scheme of research methodology of using IT tools supporting an efficiency analysis of
production process in business practice, own study

was to identify the types of used IT tools including the specifics of carried out effi-
ciency analysis of production processes. The indirect aim, but still important from
the point of view of analysing exploited IT tools, is to identify the difficulties and
constraints in their efficient use.
Using IT tools supporting analysis of processes efficiency is declared by as
many as 90 % of studied production companies. However, it is worth noticing that
most of managers bases its analytical actions on using spreadsheet programs such
as MS Excel. Especially when it comes to medium and large companies one can
identify wider use of ERP systems, dedicated systems or computing simulation
programs. A detailed analysis of the extent of using particular IT tools supporting
the analysis of production process efficiency is presented in Table 1 .
Analysing the research study results we can state that the most often used ana-
lytical tool is the spreadsheet program. Over 50 % of companies also use IT sys-
tems of ERP class to support the analyses of production process efficiency. This
group comprises of medium and large as well as micro and small companies.