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Enterprise Systems or Enterprisewide Systems

• Systems or process that involve the entire enterprise.
• This is contrast with functional systems, which are confined to one department (functional area) each.

Enterprise systems also called by ERP which control all major business processes with a single software architecture in real time.


ERP – Enterprise Resources Planning
ERP comprised of a set of applications that automate routine back-end operations:
such as

1. financial management
2. inventory management
3. Scheduling
4. order fulfillment
5. cost control
6. accounts payable and receivable,

It includes front-end operations such as:

1. POS
2. Field Sales
3. Service

It also increases efficiency, improves quality, productivity, and profitability

ERP- The Evolotion

MRP

1. Material Requirement Planning
2. Focus on stock reduction

MRPII

1. Integration of logistic processes
2. Focus on stock reduction, decrease in number of stock-out, and more control

ERP (or MRPII plus)
Evolution of MRPII thanks to:

1. better package coverage: multi-plant, quality, customer service, tracking, etc.
2. technological development: client/server architecture , RDBMS
3. Focus on customer services rather than inventories
4. Pro-active approach looking for the best allocation of financial, production and distribution resources

eMarkets (Extended-ERP)

1. Pro-active resource allocation beyond the company’s boundaries: from enterprise to inter-enterprise
2. cross-enterprise process automation

ERP – The Evolution


Evolution is Continuing
What Do We Mean by ERP II?



Functionality Evolution — The Cycle of Assimilation