Ebook: Enterprise Resource Planning : A Managerial & Technical Perspective

Management is becoming a more and more exacting job today. Competition is the spirit of the enterprise now. Accuracy and speed are the most important requirements in this. And it now involves the integration and comprehension of details and information from many segments of the business. The daunting task is, however, made possible by the revolutions in Information Technology. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is primarily an enterprise wide system that can accommodate corporate mission, objectives, attitudes, beliefs, values, operating style and people who make the organization. The inadequacy of the old system is the mother of this invention. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Managerial and Technical Perspective is designed as a textbook that bridges the unaddressed gap between managerial issues and technical issues, providing also some case studies. The twelve chapters of the book highlight the important elements of the concept and its working, with the introductory chapter introducing the whole concept of ERP: Evolution of ERP ERP Modules ERP Software Selection ERP Implementation Lifecycle Impact of Operating System on ERP Supply Chain Management (SCM) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) NET Technology An Overview of ERP Vendors Business Modeling Using UML ERP Case Studies Each chapter carries review questions and readers can use these to examine their grasp of the material. The whole of the material is designed to have: Easy intelligibility for even the beginner and Complete and up-to-date information gathered from all relevant sources. The book is meant to be of use to graduate and postgraduate students of any branch aspiring to enter the field of Information Technology (IT) to pursure a career as: IT Solution Architects Business Analysts Functional and Technical Consultants The book covers the syllabus on the subject of ERP of the BE / BTech / MSc / MBA / MCA / BCom / MCom courses. A list of books and research articles used in the preparation of this book is provided at the end