Enterprise Resource Planning (Paperback)

Book Description
This book takes a generic approach to enterprise resource planning systems and their interrelationships, covering all functional areas of this new type of management challenge. It discusses the re-design of business processes, changes in organizational structure, and effective management strategies that will help assure competitiveness, responsiveness, productivity, and global impact for many organizations in the years ahead. Specific chapter topics cover the evolution of enterprise resource planning systems; their planning, design, and implementation; relationship to sales and marketing, accounting and finance, and production and materials management; managing an ERP project; and supply chain management and the eMarketplace. For business consultants and management personnel involved in process re-engineering, and information systems specialists.

Business Processes and Information Technology (Hardcover)

This text prepares students to effectively use, manage, and participate in the development of information technology applications in support of common business processes. Interconnections among an organization's management, business processes, information systems and information technology are brought out in each chapter. Another emphasis throughout the text is the governance, control, and security of business processes, information systems--especially underlying financial information systems--and emerging technologies. Moreover, the text centers around three themes: IT innovations, e-business and enterprise systems.

Book Info
Text prepares students to effectively use, manage, and participate in the development of information technology applications in support of common business processes. Text focuses on the interconnections among an organization's management, business processes, information systems, and information technology. Includes in-chapter reviews, discussions, and problems.

 

Why ERP? A Primer on SAP Implementation (Paperback)

What is Enterprise Resource Planning and why does it matter? Like The Goal, Why ERP? is a short novel about a manager in a furniture manufacturing business who is charged with learning about and implementing a new ERP system, SAP R/3. The story tells of his experience and provides a non-technical, non-programming introduction to the basic concepts and architecture of ERP systems.