Managerial Issues Of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) systems have become very important elements of information technology in the past decade. Olson provides a managerial perspective of systems with the technical definitions and studies of actual ERP uses for balance. Issues include: available support in the decision to adopt an ERP;business process reengineering and its role in ERP systems; the different ways in which ERP systems can be adopted(full-scale vendor adoption, complete in-house development, and many combinations in between); the role of training in successful ERP implementation; maintenance of ERP systems and bolt on products for intelligent systems and e-commerce capabilities. ERP installation is presented as a project, and project features specific to ERP are discussed as well as project management tools, examples of real applications demonstrate every concept in practice.