Putting the enterprise into the enterprise system
Harvard Business Review
Enterprise resource planning: making ERP a success
Communications of the ACM
Business Process Engineering: Reference Models for Industrial Enterprises
Business Process Engineering: Reference Models for Industrial Enterprises
Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels, Repositories, Xml, and Enterprise Portals to Generate Information on Demand
Tailoring ERP Systems: A Spectrum of Choices and their Implications
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 8 - Volume 8
ERP modeling: a comprehensive approach
Information Systems
A configurable reference modelling language
Information Systems
Aligning an ERP system with enterprise requirements: An object-process based approach
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Current trends in ERP implementations and utilisation
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The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems development is based on the initial definition of an enterprise reference model, whose richness and generality will basically determine the flexibility of the resulting software package to accommodate specific requirements. The desired accommodation is rarely accomplished without costly customization processes, which are frequently unaffordable for the small and medium enterprises. In this paper, an alternative ERP development approach, stemming from the implementation of an enterprise reference metamodel, is proposed. We present an analysis of the resulting alternative ERP life cycle, particularly focusing on the metamodel that constitutes the core of the proposal. The results obtained in a complete enterprise software development project, encompassing software package development, tailored implementation and some post-implementation customization, show that the proposed approach facilitates the identification and fulfillment of the customer's specific requests at a reduced cost, even if they arise after the implementation.