Thursday 6 March 2014

CHAPTER 12 : Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)




Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

enterprise resource planning systems serve as the organization's backbone in providing fundamental decision-making supports.

*Bringing the organizational together
- information has traditionally been isolated within specific departments, whether on an individual database, in a file cabinet, or on an employee's.
- ERP enables employees across the organization to share information across a single, centralized database.

                                         

*Evolution of ERP
- ERP solutions were developed to deliver automation across multiple units of an organization, yo help facilitate the manufacturing process and address issues such a raw materials, inventory, order entry, and distribution.
- ERP handle document management, such as cataloging contracts and purchase orders.

*Integrating SCM, CRM and ERP
- this application are the backbone of ebusiness.
- is the key success of the company.
- allows unlocking of information to make it available to any user, anywhere, anytime.

*Integrating tools
- achieved using middleware- several different types of software that sit in the middle of and provide connectivity between two or more software applications.
enterprise application integration (EAI) middleware represents a new approach to middleware by packaging together commonly used functionality.
- if one applications performs poorly, the entire customers value delivery systems will affected.

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