Problems in implementing and operating a manufacturing resource planning information system
Journal of Management Information Systems
Paradigm shift: the new promise of information technology
Paradigm shift: the new promise of information technology
Process innovation: reengineering work through information technology
Process innovation: reengineering work through information technology
Putting the enterprise into the enterprise system
Harvard Business Review
The Executive's Guide to Successful MRP II
The Executive's Guide to Successful MRP II
Information Engineering: Strategic Systems Development
Information Engineering: Strategic Systems Development
IDEFO - SADT Business Process and Enterprise Modelling
IDEFO - SADT Business Process and Enterprise Modelling
A Critical Success Factors Model For ERP Implementation
IEEE Software
Special section: toward a theory of business process change management
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Toward a theory of business process change management
A hierarchical multi-view modeling for networked joint manufacturing system
Computers in Industry
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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In the paper, the authors investigate the organisation structure in an ERP system. Using SAP R/3 as an example, it identifies that the structure should be established following its functional needs. Each ERP function module should have its own organisation structure, and each function module should have its own power control structure, all of them being constituent with the "virtual" enterprise. Moreover, the authors propose the use of Enterprise Modelling to analyse the gap and map between enterprise organisation structure and the virtual enterprise in system design and implementation. Various examples of this modelling process using IDEF are given. Finally, we observe that Enterprise Modelling provides the essential tools and methods necessary for Business Process Reengineering and Continuous Improvement as well as for customising ERP software and avoiding the complete rebuilding of the whole enterprise structure. This provides the flexibility and scalability to change organisation structure only in the "virtual" elements.