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What is Business Processes

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems
“A business process is a set of business events that together enable the creation and delivery of an organization’s products or services to its customers (Gelinas et al, 2004).”
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Implementing Best of Breed ERP Systems
Joseph Bradley (University of Idaho, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-859-8.ch017
Abstract
ERP implementation projects normally involve a single vendor providing the packaged software for the entire system. Although most companies follow this practice, a significant number of firms employ an alternate strategy of “best of breed” ERP. This strategy involves selecting software that best matches the current or desired business practices of the company from a variety of vendors. This strategy reduces the need for the firm to customize the software or to significantly reengineer its business practices. Best of Breed offers firms the opportunity to maintain or create competitive advantage based on unique business processes. “Vanilla” ERP implementations may result in competitors all adopting the same business processes leaving no firm with an advantage.
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Chapter 1
Industry 4.0 From a Management Perspective
It is an activity or set of activities that can accomplish a specific organizational goal.
Published in Chapter: Industry 4.0 From a Management Perspective; From: Handbook of Research on Current Trends in Asian Economics, Business, and Administration
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Chapter 224
ERP and the Best-of-Breed Alternative
“A business process is a set of business events that together enable the creation and delivery of an organization’s products or services to its customers” (Gelinas, Sutton, & Fedorowicz, 2004 AU9: The in-text citation "Gelinas, Sutton, & Fedorowicz, 2004" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Published in Chapter: ERP and the Best-of-Breed Alternative; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 5
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Effects and Strategic Perspectives in Organizations
Also known as IT-enabled business processes. Similar to integration of business processes, associated in the manuscript with business processes to better align with the ERP software.
Published in Chapter: Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Effects and Strategic Perspectives in Organizations; From: Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems
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Chapter 13
Critical Success Factors in Enterprise 2.0: The Importance of Business Performance
Set of activities and tasks associated with the completion of a certain output, be it a project or a product.
Published in Chapter: Critical Success Factors in Enterprise 2.0: The Importance of Business Performance; From: Handbook of Research on Enterprise 2.0: Technological, Social, and Organizational Dimensions
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Chapter 384
Leveraging Complementarity in Creating Business Value for E-Business
The business processes corresponding to each activity of the value chain are the specific processes into which each primary activity of the value chain can be decomposed.
Published in Chapter: Leveraging Complementarity in Creating Business Value for E-Business; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 31
Methodology to Support Supply Chain Integration A Business Process Perspective
Business processes perform the supply chain activities necessary to ensure the achievements of the supply chain goals.
Published in Chapter: Methodology to Support Supply Chain Integration A Business Process Perspective; From: Handbook of Research on Global Supply Chain Management
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