Erp
Making It Happen: The Implementers' Guide to Success with Enterprise Resource Planning
Chapter One
Enterprise Resource
Planning
This is not a book about software. One more time: This is not a book
about how to select software and install it on your computers. Rather,
it's a book about how to implement superior business processes in
your company-processes that yield a competitive advantage.
Right now you might be thinking: "Wait a minute. The name of
this book is ERP. How can it not be about software?"
The answer is that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is not
software. One more time: ERP is not software. There's a lot of sloppy
terminology flying around today in the business press, and one misnomer
is to label enterprise-wide transaction processing software
systems as ERP. These software packages support effective resource
planning and make much of it feasible, but they don't truly do it. Plus
these packages contain many business processes other than resource
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