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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Successful SAP R3 Implementation: Practical Management of ERP Projects
This book provides the necessary knowledge and tools to facilitate the successful implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning package, such as SAP R/3, Baan or PeopleSoft. Based on a case study of a large SAP R/3 implementation, it presents a wealth of practical advice, delivering essential factors for successful project management, along with many practical tools and accelerators.
Network Resource Planning For SAP R/3, BAAN IV, and PEOPLESOFT : A Guide to Planning Enterprise Applications
This guide admirably details how to determine if your network will hold up under the strain of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application. While you will not find information on the intricacies of SAP, BAAN, and PeopleSoft products, you will get solid advice on preparing for their roll out.
Building the Operational Data Store, 2nd Edition
In Building the Data Warehouse, 2nd Edition, Inmon provides detailed discussion and analysis of all major issues related to the design and construction of the data warehouse. He shows how data warehouse solves the problem of getting information out of legacy systems and includes new techniques and applications of data warehouse technology.
SAP R/3 Certification Exam Guide
Page after page, Stewart Miller simplifies SAP, and helps you: Understand every part of the certification process. Save thousands of dollars on courses you don't need, Choose the right track to meet you goals, Plan your study program, Learn the material more quickly and easily, Master the new features of Release 4.0, Practice with hundreds of questions for every test, Apply insider tips on the exams, and put your training to work in the real world.
Enterprise Resource Planning: Integrating Applications and Business Processes Across the Enterprise
This new report from CTR examines the benefits and drawbacks of implementing ERP systems. The report also provides a five-step plan for ERP implementation and explains how to calculate ERP return on investment (ROI).
The 1999 Manufacturing Enterprise Applications Comparison Guide CD-ROM for ERP, Supply Chain, Plant Floor Automation and CMMS
Users can find, compare and select ERP, supply chain, planning and scheduling, business and financial management, manufacturing management, plant floor automation and maintenance management applications. Over 500 systems and suppliers within over 70 application areas and 10,000+ functionalities are covered.
Enterprise Resource Planning: The Dynamics of Operations Management
An enterprise-wide examination of implementing a modern information system in all business processes of a modern business enterprise. Written with an emphasis on manufacturing firms, the principles it demonstrates are transferable to other types of operation systems.
Quality Resource Planning: How to Integrate & Automate Your Quality Management System
Quality Resource Planning shows how to integrate a Quality Management System with other management information systems contained in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) model. The ERP model, with its focus on Agility, demands that a quality management system be designed to meet the needs of the rapid response environment.
Sams Teach Yourself ABAP/4 in 21 Days
The ideal book for a programmer who must get started in ABAP immediately, and does not want to know the complete story of how and why ABAP was originated. Provides all of the essential information that an ABAP programmer needs and provides it in a readable format.
Enterprise-Wide Software Solutions: Integration Strategies and Practices
For those organizations seeking to obtain the maximum benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementations, this book provides a basis for planning and managing expectations among all relevant groups - corporate management, information technology staff, users, outside consultants, and the software vendor.
Supply Chain Management: The Basics and Beyond
Here is a concise and informative overview of Supply Chain Management. Learn how to gain strategic and competitive advantage from logistics, structure a supply chain capability, build a customer-focused supply chain, organize for effectiveness, analyze for excellence, and discover future trends and directions.
PeopleSoft Application Development Tools
This book assumes no prior knowledge of PeopleSoft. It works with the end user from an introduction to the concepts and the look and feel of PeopleSoft applications all the way through to completing custom applications.
ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain
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.
PeopleSoft Integration Tools
This will be the first task-oriented book on PeopleSoft integration tools for administrators and developers building complex PeopleSoft enterprise applications that need to be integrated with existing and new third party software. PeopleSoft will provide authors with access to technical reviewers and software tools.
SAP Finance and Controlling
Use what you know -- this book teaches users how to use the FI/CO system by mapping it to the accounting and financial knowledge they already have. First to focus on the SAP end-user - - this integrated book/CD-ROM package is the first complete training kit for end users of SAP software.
Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization
The author explains ERP in non-technical terms, describing how an ERP system can fully integrate all functions in your manufacturing organization. He demonstrates the system's capability to increase efficiency and profitability - and to delight the customer - as well as its current deficiencies.
IBM San Francisco Developer's Guide
This programming book shows readers how to build real ERP applications for supply chain management, accounting, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory control.
Implementing SAP R/3 Sales & Distribution
One of the world's leading SAP Sales & Distribution consultants delivers the first comprehensive and practical guide to implementing this new module in the R/3 system. Inside this book you'll get complete information on the ins and outs of the software, including basic functions, sales document flow, invoicing, and how the Sales & Distribution module interfaces with other modules.
Why ERP? A Primer on SAP Implementation
Why ERP? is a short novel about a manager in a furniture manufacturing business who is charged with learning about and implementing a new ERP system-particularly SAP R/3. Though this is NOT a programming book, it is a quick read overview, and it can be assigned even for 'systems' majors, as a background reading to lay-out the managerial issues and build a basic understanding of the concepts-prior to doing actual technical programming or hands-on R/3 projects.
Project Management with SAP R/3
This book introduces the practical and theoretical aspects of project management and project control, explaining the terminology and procedures of project management and the SAP R/3 system.
Dynamic Implementation of SAP R/3
This book presents the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM). Flexible, fast, and cost-effective, DSDM can work at any company -- and it is especially well-suited to the next generation of SAP R/3 implementers.
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Systems, Life Cycles, Electronic Commerce, and Risk
Explains the background of ERP systems and goes on to discuss specific systems, such as SAP, and their capabilities. Focuses on the ERP life cycle from the decision to adopt and ERP system to the time when the system goes 'live.' Concludes with a discussion of the risks associated with the adoption of ERP systems. DLC: Production management.
E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise
Provides techniques for melding enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities with the communications power of the Internet. Shows how start-up and established companies can link their existing ERP systems with the information capabilities of their customers, and offers a framework for understanding e- business opportunities within the context of a traditional enterprise and its infrastructure. Explains how the Internet impacts supply chain management, customer relationship management, and shared services, and looks at the future of Web- based technologies. Norris is a partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's management consulting services practice.
ERP -- The Next Generation: ERP Is Web Enabled for E-Business
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) now embraces e-commerce, advanced planning and scheduling (APS), Internet-based procurement, business intelligence (BI), and customer relationship management (CRM). This CTR report examines these and other services offered by ERP software providers, including portals, Web-based hubs for easy application access, online marketplaces, and interactive industry-specific trading communities.
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
Integrating ERP, CRM, Supply Chain Management, and Smart Materials
Organizations enjoy two kinds of strategic advantages. One is transitory: being in the right place with the right products at the right time. The other comes from having first class management and instituting processes that mobilize an organization, keeping in ahead of the competition. Which would you like to count on for your organization's success?
ERP: A-Z Implementer's Guide For Success
This book represents the most comprehensive textbook in the history of ERP systems. It has 20 chapters spanning 750 pages packed with full color diagrams, figures and charts that explain basic concepts common to all ERP systems to help them be successful for companies that use these complex systems. With over five years in the development the textbook provides a stable foundation of knowledge for entry-level students through senior level practitioners. It recognizes emerging technologies such as: Internet, client/server, e-business, and their impact on ERP systems.
Peoplesoft HRMS Reporting
Adam Bromwich's objective in PeopleSoft HRMS Reporting is to synchronize the perspectives of technical people (PeopleSoft designers and administrators) and functional people (managers who use PeopleSoft). If technicians know what managers need and managers know what technicians can do, more productive enterprises will result. Bromwich succeeds admirably, explaining the human resources, payroll, and benefits aspects of the PeopleSoft HRMS database. Taking a table-by-table approach to the information PeopleSoft stores, the book explains each field in many of the most useful tables and details unusual formatting where it's an issue. He also explains how various pieces of data relate to one another and how best to access them. In one sense, this is a guided tour of a great big relational database.
ERP For Dummies
Written in the most basic language it is well adapted to all audiences. This should be the first book anyone reads on ERP. It is appropriate for executives, students, teachers, managers, consultants, programmers, analysts, lawyers, and more. It helps prepare future users and students of ERP. It answers basic questions like: What is ERP? How will it effect me? How will it help my company? How is it implemented? It has been chosen by the CIBRES.COM organization as the primary introductory book for newcomers to ERP. It comes with a unique free online question / answer wizard that allows readers to search for specific ERP questions and answers. Or the reader may use the wizard to ask a question to the authors or a panel of experts.
ERP:Making It Happen: The Implementers' Guide to Success with Enterprise Resource Planning
Effective forecasting, planning, and scheduling is fundamental to productivity–and ERP is a fundamental way to achieve it. Properly implementing ERP will give you a competitive advantage and help you run your business more effectively, efficiently, and responsively. This guide is structured to support all the people involved in ERP implementation–from the CEO and others in the executive suite to the people doing the detailed implementation work in sales, marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, logistics, finance, and elsewhere.
Scorecard System For World Class Enterprise Resource Management : For ERP Systems
This book is about process improvement for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. It's about understanding these complex systems and finding opportunities for progress. It's about learning how computer planning systems and management technology come together to create a competitive advantage. It's about communication and participation through the sharing of knowledge. We will no longer pour millions of dollars into complex computer systems to become hostage to a barrage of problems. Become part of a group of people in understanding where your ERP system is today, how much better it can be, and how you can get there. Gain valuable knowledge from the scorecard and comparison system to understand how well your ERP system is performing and how it compares to other companies in the same industry using the same software.
Industry-Specific ERP Systems: Integrating Information and Business Processes in the Enterprise
Written from a business rather than a technical perspective this book explores the logic behind ERP. It emphasizes application modules and their business implications considering and specifying the differences between sectors of the industry. The author uses case studies to capture and illustrate best practices. He discusses fundamentals, concepts, functions, components, and all relevant aspects of the topic focusing on integrating information and business processes in the total enterprise and in the supply chain. Included is a CD-ROM with screen shots of real industry-specific systems, action notes, definitions, key ideas, and workflows for self-study or instruction.
Maximizing Business Performance through Software Packages: Best Practices for Justification, Selection, and Implementation
At times a daring, maddening, and even frightening process, finding and implementing a suitable software package is never an easy task. The cost of the software package is often a fraction of the overall expense. Unless carefully selected, a major software package implementation can consume a considerable amount of your organization's time and energy. An ill-informed purchase can cost your organization it's customers, dollars, and reputation. This book explores the business challenges involved in justifying, selecting, and implementing software packages. It contains practical advice and insights on how to select "good fitting" software packages, how to justify them in terms of their ability to enable business process change or improvement, and most importantly, how to implement them successfully. The process has become increasingly complex as business functions have become increasingly integrated.
Integrated Auditing of ERP Systems
The late 1990s witnessed a boom in companies investing in multimillion dollar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, comprehensive technologies that increase efficiency and profitability by placing all business transactions under one inclusive system. Yet the benefits of ERP systems come with a larger degree of risk. Supply-chain links to other companies, employee access to a greater amount of business information, and newer extract reporting features likewise introduce new risk factors that must be managed. With most Fortune 500 companies and other large organizations now depending on SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft, and other ERP systems as key components to their strategic growth, it is critical for companies to reduce risk and ensure that their ERP systems operate at maximum efficiency.
Microsoft Buys Navision: ERP for the Masses ... Worldwide (PDF download)
This document discusses what is next in ERP now that Microsoft has tentatively vaulted to a number 5 on the ERP leader board.
ERP and Web Services: The Third Wave (PDF download)
Web Services based ERP solutions constitute what can be appropriately termed as the Third Wave in Enterprise Resource Planning. This paper looks at what such solutions have to offer and who the major players in the foray are. We also take a look at solution architectures for the two immediate application areas of such solutions.
Lean Performance ERP Project Management: Implementing the Virtual Supply Chain
Business consultant Carroll outlines his methodology for "lean implementation" that starts with a company's existing work flows and develops process-performance improvements and measurements, determining what work must be completed in order to determine how best to do the work. Carroll notes that the reference is intended primarily for CEOs, COOS, and other business managers rather than IT professionals; "As fond of information and other technologies as I am," he writes, "I believe that the more complex and, therefore, more valuable (and costly) elements of business processes are tasks that are people-based." While the reference emphasizes manufacturing, the broader concepts apply to business processes regardless of service or industry.
Enterprise Architecture Planning: Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications, and Technology
Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) is a high-level blueprint for data, applications, and technology that is a cost-effective long-term solution. The authors give you a common-sense approach to EAP, supported by examples of architectures, procedures, checklists, and useful guidelines.
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) with Introduction to ERP, SCM, and CRM
This reference explains how companies can maximize the money spent on their enterprise resource/materials requirements planning by clarifying the role of each person involved in its implementation. The author offers a thorough explanation of the basics of manufacturing planning systems, providing readers with the framework for understanding the requirements of a well- functioning, integrated system.
ERP: The Implementation Cycle
Provides the practical information needed in relation to the many issues and events within the implementation cycle. Covers the multidisciplinary subject of ERP and contains a wealth of detail about the ERP implementation cycle.
ERP and Data Warehousing in Organizations: Issues and Challenges
Offering enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployment strategies for information as diverse as patient records, police and community relations, and geospatial services, this text addresses the complex issues that information and communication technologies pose for small, midsize, and large organizations. Provided are recent research findings as well as practical assessments and suggestions for managers.
ERP Optimization: Using Your Existing System to Support Profitable E-Business Initiatives
Presents a technocentric guide to e-transformation and describes alternatives to replacing outdated systems such as wrappers supported by object technology.
ERP Implementation in State Government (PDF download)
This case study examines some of benefits associated with the implementation of integrated systems in state government. Specifically, the case describes how the public sector has embraced enterprise resource planning (ERP) as the business standard for enterprise computing and how these same technologies can benefit public organizations. Private-sector organizations embraced this technology for varying reasons. This case looks at the challenges and opportunities faced by state government’s ERP implementation.
Maximizing Your ERP System: A Practical Guide for Managers
Bridging the theory and realities of current ERP systems, Maximizing Your ERP System provides practical guidance for managing manufacturing. Illustrated with case studies from the author's firsthand experience in consulting to more than 1,000 firms, it covers common problems and working solutions across all types of environments as it offers contingency-based approaches for how to effectively implement and use ERP systems. The book particularly addresses the issues facing smaller manufacturers and autonomous plants of larger firms.
Business Intelligence Implementation Issues and Perspectives
This book gives an insight into Business Intelligence, its significance in today's business world, and takes the readers through the implementation cycle, the emerging scenario and its application in industry.
Physical Database Design
Physical Database Design: the database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more.
The rapidly increasing volume of information contained in relational databases places a strain on databases, performance, and maintainability, and DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to optimize database structure for system performance and administration.
Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how physical structures of databases affect performance and includes specific examples, guidelines, and best and worst practices for a variety of DBMSs and configurations. Something as simple as improving the table index design has a profound impact on performance. Every form of relational database, such as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Enterprise Resource Management (ERP), Data Mining (DM), or Management Resource Planning (MRP), can be improved using these methods.
