ERP Implementation

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Date :ERP system introduction

The acronym for ERP is Enterprise resource planning . ERP comprises of multi-module applications merged and together they integrate activities of different departments of an organization . In addition to software applications that are used to accomplish the integration , it also entails the hardware , the users involved and the under laid network . ERP integrates activities such as production operations of manufacturing Human Resource management , finance activities of purchases , accounts receipting and invoicing , general ledger

book keeping , products warehousing and transportation among other activities for an organization (Castells , 2003

History of ERP

In the early1960 's , there was emergence of inventory management and control systems and their software were customizations for handling purely stock management . In 1970 , the attention was towards planning and procurement for raw materials and finished products and hence the emergence material requirement planning (MRP . In 1980 's , MRP was upgraded and MRPII (manufacturing resource planning ) evolved . To reengineer the activities within a business enterprise , MRPII was further expanded to become the Enterprise Resource planning (ERP

ERP implementations

Global ERP implementation

This can refers to global unified worldwide functions of any multi-national corporation with the assistance of some enterprise resource-planning (ERP ) software application . ERP in the early times was used to ease and simplify work of very large industries but now it comprehensively used to integrate activities of both large and small organizations . One of challenges by this class of implementation is that for centralized...