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What is Sensory ERP

Chapter 41
Handbook of Research in Mobile Business, Second Edition: Technical, Methodological and Social Perspectives
A concept for next generation ERP systems. It enables the ERP system to automatically acquire data and supervise enterprise states and events by using sensors (e.g. RFID tags and gates, GPS tracker, etc.). Interfacing between the physical world and the ERP system is no longer performed through human workers, but this data is collected by sensors that directly assess the physical states and that are part of the real world itself. By this, the error rate significantly decreases and business processes become more efficient
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Mobile Technologies Extending ERP Systems
Dirk Werth (Institute for Information Systems at German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) and Paul Makuch (Institute for Information Systems at German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-156-8.ch041
Abstract
Nowadays the majority of enterprises use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to improve their business processes. Simultaneously, mobile technologies which can be used within ERP have gained further importance. This is because ERP, together with mobile technologies, offers a wide spectrum of synergies and both have a significant impact on enterprise efficiency. The improvement possibilities in ERP due to mobility range from sales activities, over logistic processes, up to effects on the human resource management.
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