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What is Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems
An off-the-shelf accounting-oriented information system that is designed to meet the information needs of most organizations. ERP systems enable organization to procure, process and deliver customer goods or services in a timely, predictable manner. These systems are complex and expensive information tools, which have proven difficult and time consuming to implement.
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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 44
Assessing ERP Risks and Rewards
An off-the-shelf accounting-oriented information system that meets the information needs of most organizations. A complex and expensive information tool to meet the needs of an organization to procure, process, and deliver customer goods or services in a timely, predictable manner.
Published in Chapter: Assessing ERP Risks and Rewards; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Enterprise Resource Planning System Risks and Rewards
An off-the-shelf accounting-oriented information system that meets the information needs of most organizations. A complex and expensive information tool to meet the needs of an organization to procure, process and deliver customer goods or services in a timely, predictable manner.
Published in Chapter: Enterprise Resource Planning System Risks and Rewards; From: Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems
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