Few things to ponder when planning for ERP like -
• Which processes are most important now and why?
• Does this sytem meet our needs or go beyond them?
• Who will be the change champion(s)?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• What is the business culture at our company and what are its strengths?
• What subcultures do we have and what are their strengths?
• How can we apply those strengths to business change?
• What cultural attributes are weak or will interfere with the change?
• What will be the toughest changes, and how will we address them?
• Who will be responsible for change management?
Material Resource Planning (MRP)
The practice of calculating what materials are required to build a product by analyzing a bill of material data, inventory data and the master production schedule. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an outgrowth of MRP.
Enterprise Resource Planning
The practice of consolidating an enterprise’s planning, manufacturing, sales and marketing efforts into one management system.
Enterprise Relationship Management
The practice of analyzing customer data from sales, marketing, service, finance and manufacturing databases in order to relate efficiently to customers.
Enterprise Resource Management
The practice of providing users with efficient access to an organization’s network resources. ERM enables the enterprise to control and track the systems and resources that each user has access to and provides consistent standards for creating and changing passwords.
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