Spreadsheet Application still dominates Enterprise Resource Planning and Advanced Planning Systems

Federated Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

too. Thus, enhancements and modifications of the standard software product are incumbent upon the software vendors. A cross-vendor standardization of data models for ERP systems and the establishment of unified architectural model, however, would change this situation. The new idea is to develop a novel ERP system architecture, which facilitates an overall reusability of individual business com...

Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Intelligence: The Importance of Integration

The advancement of information and communications technologies (ICT) has significantly intensified market competition the world over. One of the most widespread solutions is the use of enterprise resource planning systems that has proved to support the integration and automation of the processes, the improvement of the performance, and the reduction of costs. ERP involves the planning and manag...

Planning and Analysis of Knowledge Intensive Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Consultants and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been implemented in the majority of large companies in Europe and the US over the last five years [1]. This paper seeks to address three issues arising from this deployment. Firstly, to consider ERP systems in relation to previous approaches to deploying information systems in organisations. Secondly, to indicate how the mediation by consultants i...

Planning for 'Drift'?: Implementation Process of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

This paper reports the findings of a large-scale case study of implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) in a long-established multinational company within the telecommunication sector. The company has recently streamlined its operations through an ambitious business process redesign initiative and introduced an ERP system. The study examines the process of change enacted during t...