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OPERATIONSMANAGEMENT

Chapter 26ENTERPRISE RESOURCE

PLANNING

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Chapter 26Enterprise Resource Planning

W hat is Enterprise ResourcePlanning? (ERP)

I ntegration of financial, manufacturing and humanresources on a single computer system.

SAP AG, a German software company created ERPsoftware to integrate all business processes together for use by any business.Two steps involved in the implementation of ERPare :

Analysing the business processes. Determining which ERP modules to be

implemented and how to configure them.

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ERP Implementation Life Cycle1. Pre-evaluation Screening2. Package Evaluation3. Project Planning4. Gap Analysis5. Reengineering6. Configuration7. Training of implementation team

8. Testing9. End User Training10. ³Going-live´11. Post implementation