Major Corporations switching to an ERP system and the affect on the end user

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Major Corporations switching to an ERP system and the affect on the end user

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Major Corporations switching to an ERP system and the affect on the end user

Abstract

ERP at its very threshold was accessible only by large corporations because of its high implementation and running costs , but with the development of World Wide Web , the ERP methods have become the ideal

of small business as well . With the growing technologies and the interest of small business men in implementing ERP has made the ERP system vendors to come up with flexibility in the systems Table of Contents

ERP - An Introduction

Implementation of ERP in Corporation

Importance of ERP in Corporations

ERP software

How it affects end users when a corporate switch to ERP

Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

References ERP an Introduction

The technological progress of man in the contemporary times is the ultimate result of the restless human nature . The human history is marked with remarkable achievements from cave to modern business enterprise . Innovation has always been the counterpart of invention in this regard . Being in the contemporary times , when we explore the surroundings , it 's found that the modern setups , i .e . business and societal , are composed of very complex phenomenon . Considering the business setups most influencing part , let 's explore the business world The history of modern business is not very far away , instead it dates back somewhere in the last decade of the 20th century . The most effective tool been introduced at that time was ERP , which didn 't only stimulated the business activities at a greater extent but also became the base of automated business management . Wikipedia , the online Encyclopedia defines ERP systems as Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs ) integrate (or attempt to integrate ) all HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Data " \o "Data " data and processes of an organization into a unified system . A typical ERP system will use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve the HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Enterprise_application_integration " \o "Enterprise application integration " integration . A key ingredient of most ERP systems is the use of a unified HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Database " \o "Database " database to store data for the various system modules (Wikipedia

ERP is actually a method of using computer technology to integrate various parts of the organization , i .e . finance , sales , marketing inventory , purchases , payroll , customer relations etc . The emergence of ERP on the business arena is not old , it was initially incorporated in the early 1990s , where by mainframe computers were used by large business setups in to stimulate their organizational productivity by saving time and cost . The concept of ERP took a great deal of fame during mid 1990s . Throughout the 1990s , most large industrial companies installed enterprise resource planning systems - that is , massive computer applications allowing a business to manage all...