Enterprise resource planning: cultural fits and misfits: is ERP a universal solution?
Communications of the ACM
Enterprise resource planning: making ERP a success
Communications of the ACM
Enterprise resource planning: componentizing the enterprise application packages
Communications of the ACM
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Enterprise Resource Planning represents a concept which is too ambitious for its name: forget about planning, therefore forget about the resources, the "enterprise" level (the integration) is what ERP aims to be: an "integrated" system for processing and storing data which is going to replace the independent applications in a unique structure of data and in a joint logic processing. Consequently, ERP brings data which are usually stored and processed by different independent applications having distinct functions within an economic agent. It can easily be assimilated to an "information" plurality of functions: to process unitary and coherently the data of two departments which have different functions (for example: accountancy and financial). This state generally involves storing, processing and reference to the operative documents as well as (probably) their reflection in accountancy. An ERP solution will be capable of at least two practical achievements: it will be able to offer a relational (coherent) data structure and it will be able to serve in an optimum and efficient way the needs of storing / reference concerning the examination and the efficient exploitation of already stored data (documents) of an operative nature.