<title>SEAE-SES enterprise alternative evaluator: design and implementation of a manufacturing enterprise alternative evaluation tool</title>

Enterprise modeling is presently devoid of a framework for simultaneously combining the strategic, tactical, and financial enterprise design considerations along the lines of a common organization function hierarchical decomposition. Present approaches provide a design structure, usually a combination of prescriptive and descriptive methods, to achieve the required representation. The System Entity Structure Enterprise Alternative Evaluator, while adhering to the broader focus of developing a design environment for manufacturing system configurations, will provide both the categorical qualitative and quantitative descriptive attributes of evaluation objectives. This will be exemplified in the design and evaluation of a single product process.