Definition of enterprise resource planning system
From the enterprise resource planning system began to develop, although the ERP system, this term can be said that people who have ears Ripe to consider in detail, but due to the different cognitive differences and needs, and even industry-related software products provide the functions And norms their own ways, making ERP systems are still no clear definition and scope. This term was originally proposed by the whole Ball Industry Analysis Group (Gartner Group) was made in early 1990, is used to represent the next generation of industry-funded Telecommunications system and manufacturing resource planning software. With its users spread to all walks of life, and the software vendors ERP software functionality provided by the continuous expansion of land, ERP also will expand the meaning. To promote the MRP, MRP II The well-known American Production and Inventory Management (APICS), has also changed in recent years, known as the "Resource Management Education Association Will be "in his 1995 Dictionary of years to the eighth edition of" enterprise resource planning system (ERP) "the interpretation of a speech made by the As follows: "a accounting-oriented information systems, used to identify and planning in order to receive, manufacture, delivery and knot Operator needed for customer orders throughout the enterprise resources. " The current practitioners of the ERP definition of divergent views, some of ERP is a species will be able to as a primary or within the enterprise to integrate all of the resources of abstraction, and even according to this concept of self-build enterprise-based integrated systems, while others use ERP enterprise resource integration on behalf of those who will view Concept into practical operation of the Indian enterprise resource planning software package.
Davenport (1998) that the ERP system is a species of for enterprise information integration technology to bring together cross-reactive To sector and regional business activities and processes as the core database using the Internet link to information for Enjoy, support the use of applications modules, integrated enterprise business processes to achieve best interest. ERP system is defined as enterprise resource planning is a group enterprise manufacturing, finance, distribution and other related functions Application software programs to achieve a balance. When the concept of maturity, businesses can be connected sake of all their branches Ball finance, manufacturing, sales systems, to real-time analysis of the quality of its products, specifications, customer satisfaction, overall performance and profitability and so on.
ERP Research Association of Japan (2001) defines the so-called ERP systems, integration means Accounting management, production management, sales management, inventory management, people management, enterprise base things of the new information system type package. ERP system, is a species will be scattered in various parts of inter-firm Applications to integrate with the central management of software infrastructure will improve in all the scattered units of the operation of Including production management, procurement, manufacturing, sales, delivery services. Jule (2000), is a detailed description of local ERP The system is a set of pre-made plan, available for immediate installation and has been integrated suite of application modules that can meet the enterprise In the demand for a variety of functional and flexible, able to according to the user's operating environment for the conduct of individual module configurations The reset (re-Configuring) or custom (Customizing), ERP and thus be able to encourage enterprises to become a One integrated, holistic, and process-oriented, information-driven, real-time of the modern organization.
Institute for Information Industry's Market Intelligence center (MIC) that the corporate ERP system is intended to build, is an immediate response to enterprise Industry in the use of internal resources, and providing the decision-making enterprise as a reference, so the ERP is narrowly defined as: "support Aid decision-making within the enterprise transaction management system ", and as the rapidly changing industrial environment, corporate internal and external information The integration of the growing importance of the concept of integration within the enterprise spread to the enterprise from the outside, plus the above and supply chain management (Supply Chain Management, SCM) and Data Warehousing (Data Warehouse, DW) combination by Integration of information systems to provide enterprise managers accurate real-time information, the MIC will be a broad definition of ERP As follows: "Integration of external information, business management system."
In the past the Indian literature, some scholars ERP system in the enterprise value chain, India's position and role definition ERP system. Kumar Raja (1999) pointed out that the value chain framework, ERP systems are enterprise for even the Knot within the enterprise supply chain and value chain, the best information system, which aims to provide enterprise-wide resource allocation rules Planning of possible solutions, through the value chain within the enterprise and information integration, the creation of real-time nature of information is Indeed, the nature of an induced nature.
Stenly (1999) is defined as the ERP system is simple integrated enterprise Supply chain tools, technologies and applications. Jie Wei scholars mentioned above the definition of ERP systems on the substantive terms, ERP systems are still the face of the most concrete Is a set of software packages, but no one unified specification, functional differences between the above depending on the software provider may be. Although, as Here, different brands there were similarities between the function of the above, but have shown, similar to the above one-line transaction processing system Import (On-Line Transaction Processing System, OLTP). Of its daily operation of enterprises capable of a variety of operations Process to be in series, thus providing real-time transaction information and the integrated operation. In practice, surface and therefore the industry is still Tend to the software provided by the positioning of the ERP system software package for the transaction processing system (Hudson, 2000)
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