Articles on Enterprise Resource Planning

Planning Functionality of an ERP System – Setting up of Planning Engine

In customer centric business environment, it is critical to have an effective plan to manage production capacity, materials availability and...

Demand Planning and Master based Planning

Demand Planning: The objective of this function is to create a demand plan, based on historical sales data. The demand...

Order based Planning and Order Promising

Order based Planning: Order-based planning is the functionality that plans planned orders to cover components and end items. This functionality...

Service Module – Setting Up and Configuration Control

It is of utmost importance for any business enterprise to maintain their existing customers. A proper after sales service through...

ERP Package – Sales Module

In the context of growing market competition, organizations are focusing more on closer partnership across supply chain. Increasing efficiency in...

ERP Service Module – Planning, Warranties and Contracts

Service Planning – Attending of unscheduled maintenance tasks arising out of breakdown and faults both for internal and external customer...

ERP Service Module – Call Handling and Service Orders Control

Call Handling Proper operation of a help desk is an essential component of proper servicing and resolution of problems. Service...

ERP – Technical Modules – Installation and License Management

Kernel of an ERP system comprises of a technical module (set of tools) which provides a foundation to various application...

Users Interface and Users Management in ERP System

Users interface directly impact usability of an ERP system. A properly designed user interface provides proper accessibility to the intended...

ERP – System-Auditing, Device, Text and Job Management

IN addition to functions covered by technical modules such as user’s management, License management, installation (as discussed in earlier papers),...

HR and Quality Management in ERP System

Human Resource (HR): Though the pay rolls preparation through bespoke systems is one of the early adoptions of application software...

Project Control and Engineering Change Control in ERP

Project control module is used for organizing long term projects such as building a ship or power plant. The production...

Enterprise Application Integration and Service Oriented Architecture

ERP represents a wide suite of applications covering various enterprise functionalities. It also links together departments and business units. Whereas...

ERP Add on Products – SCM, SRM and WMS

Supply Chain Management (SCM): Improvement of supply chain is one of the last frontiers for improving productivity and supply chain...

Turbo Charging ERP with BI and CPM

Business Intelligence (BI) – An ERP product provides hundreds of standard reports, generated weekly or monthly or year end basis...

Repetitive and Process Manufacturing

Conventional shop floor control functionality of an ERP system, for the most part, is suitable for discrete manufacturing. However, during...

Past and Current Directions in ERP

In keeping with technological changes in IT sector as well as evolving business need, there are discernable changes in ERP...

The Use of Enterprise Resource Planning Applications in Finance and HRM

The Importance of ERP Software In previous articles on Finance and Human Resource Management, we discussed how the finance and...

Why are Companies Constantly Upgrading their ERP Systems?

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the lifeblood of any business today. Any business, be it a medium scale enterprise or...

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