ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain - Hardcover

Ptak, Carol A; Schragenheim, Eli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574442708 ISBN 13: 9781574442700

Publisher: CRC Press, 1999

Synopsis

Intensifying competition forces companies to closely integrate with their customers and suppliers. Cooperation creates a more flexible supply chain. Yet, lead-times become shorter and demand for increased variety continues to grow. This dilemma requires a means to implement the desired integration. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is that tool.

ERP, a system for effectively planning and managing all the resources of an enterprise, fully utilizes the increased power available in computers today. ERP is distinguished from MRP in its use of relational databases, fourth-generation languages, integrated computer aided engineering tools, and open system portability to adjunct planning systems, finite scheduling systems, and manufacturing execution systems.

INTRODUCING THE MANAGEMENT INTERACTIVE CASE STUDY SIMULATOR
This book includes the Management Interactive Case Study Simulator (MICSS) on CD-ROM, a computerized case study that lets you manage a small company, illustrating crucial management issues. The challenge: learn to control the dynamics of this virtual company and maneuver it to financial success.

The Advanced Planning and Scheduling tools of the ERP system help determine the most beneficial mix of customers and orders. ERP provides timing recommendation for material purchases and can share this information with all links of the supply chain. A successful ERP is highly effective in reducing material costs, which boosts profitability.

The most common reason that ERP implementations fail is when operators are not properly educated in the integrated business application of the system. This ignorance turns ERP into an overpriced inventory control system. ERP: Tools, Techniques and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain helps provide the education that is critical for ERP success.

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Review:

The monograph is easy to read. ...This monograph will be useful to manufacturing business professionals in a variety of industries to serve as an excellent reliable guide during the selection and implementation of an integrated ERP system.
-Zentralblatt MATH

It is the first ERP book to deal with Sales and Operations Planning and its importance to the success of an ERP system...The book is easy to read. It should probably be read cover to cover before beginning the ERP implementation.
-- Richard C. Ling, CFPIM, from the Foreword

The focus is on manufacturing and supply chains, but nonmanufacturing people in logistics will find lots of help...Successfully implementing modern computer-based systems in the real world is a theme throughout...This is not a book to be read leisurely and put aside...it is a reference to keep very handy and use while working to avoid expensive pitfalls.
-- George W. Plossl, CFPIM, from the Foreword

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1574442708
• ISBN 13: 9781574442700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456