Since February 2000, we have seen numerous announcements from large companies such as General Motors, Boeing, Ford and British Airways saying they are creating or participating in Business-to-Business (B2B) eMarketplaces. Clearly, these companies believe they are going to derive benefits in supply chains from these trading exchanges. In analyzing the situation, the potential benefits to large o...

The software systems of our company are offered under the name JobDISPO. The application areas of the different solutions are depicted in fig. 1. JobDISPO EAI solves interface problems within your company (e.g. the connection to an existing ERP-/ PPC-/CAD-/CAM-/MES-/ CAQ-/MDC-software) as well as the electronical integration of customers and suppliers (e.g. by EDI/XML). JobDISPO ERP supports th...

The market for enterprise systems (ES), continues to grow in the post millennium era as businesses become increasingly global, highly competitive, and severely challenged. Although the large enterprise space for ES implementation is quite stagnated, now all of the ES vendors are focusing on the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector for implementations. This study looks at the current ES...

In 2000, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden launched a bachelorprogram in enterprise systems. The program was a response to the increasein use of ERP packages and the need for engineers with knowledge andskills different from traditional systems development. The curriculumincludes courses in selecting, configuring, modifying and integrating ERPsoftware. Students ach...