Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) play a significant role in the management of businesses processes. Determining the influential factors that are positioned behind a successful ERP implementation is critical to gain the most value-added from competitive potentials of such systems. The driver of current research is to gain a deeper understanding of the various subjective criteria to mea...

The success of a product in today’s global marketplace depends on capabilities of firms in the product’s supply chain. Among these capabilities, effective inventory management is a capability necessary to lead in the global marketplace. The chapter provides a discussion of four fundamentals of effective inventory management. First, it requires managers to know how best to use available informat...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is used to enable organizational change. The challenges of implementing these integrated software products have recently dominated academic and practitioner literatures. Given that it is difficult for organizations to stop such projects once started, the authors'approach is to focus on how to make troubled ERP projects work. A narrative methodology is...

Today, within the global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approach, success of design, industrialization and production activities depends on the ability to coordinate and improve the interaction among information systems that handle such activities. Enterprises deploy mainly the PLM system, the Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) and the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in order to...

succession planning is one the most important survival strategies for effective operation in today turbulent world. apart from the importance of this strategy, in any organization, a diverse set of facilitating and preventing factors emerge in successor planning process which create a challenging force field pro or con to it. in this research, while facilitating and preventing methods in execut...

conclusions although, successful implementation of high reliability organizations is based on knowledge of managers and supervisors, the effectiveness of this model is still in the maturity and readiness phase. results after holding high reliability model training course, 52.2% of respondents expressed obtaining a keen knowledge of high reliability organizations model. compared to knowledge of ...

in era of service economy, organizations' success depends significantly on providing quality services. therefore, organizations are in the idea of employing tools such as knowledge management to survive. human activities such as knowledge sharing among organizational members are the foundation of knowledge management in organizations. recent studies have shown that the relational psychological ...

The Strategic Knowledge Management considers Intellectual Capital as roots of all organizations activities. The success of organizations strongly depends on the way they manage all facets of knowledge and skills. Artificial Intelligence brought some methods and techniques for handling intellectual assets of companies, expertise management, knowledge transfer and training. This paper presents a ...