Preparing for Your ERP Selection: The Importance of Starting at the End

Any manufacturer in the midst of active ERP selection project faces a daunting task. Many selection teams get pulled into a variety of directions, often finding it difficult to apply the needed resources for effective ERP selection.

The Nature of ERP :

Time and money are the biggest constraints related to a process of change in a business environment, but the most important issues are about the nature of ERP and IT Business

Think Strategy When Implementing Manufacturing ERP

Financial decision support and managerial costing is a high thought exercise. Even from highly capable ERP solutions vendors, most of the “ready-made� solutions will do little more than meet the requirements for financial reporting

Six lessons from a lightning ERP rollout

What follows are six valuable lessons they learned transforming a seriously challenged effort into a roaring success. Consider this a practical supplement to my recent “13 tips for turbocharging projects� post.

Comparing SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft ERP

Recent research compares important dimensions of IT project success and failure on ERP systems from SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics

Defining ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning Software Guide

The key to understanding ERP software is to think “integration.� ERP software links systems across an enterprise to streamline workflow, share information among different departments, and provide insight into a business’s operations. An ERP system does away with each department using its own software to do its work (human resources software to track employees, accounting software to pay bills, spreadsheets to track inventory, etc.). Instead, an ERP system stores all company data in a single, relational database. Employees input the data and access it via modules designed specifically for each functional area.

ERP Implementation Survey Report

The 2008 ERP Report was conducted by Panorama Consulting Group via online polling