Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management: Functions, Business Processes and Software for Manufacturing Companies

✍ Scribed by Karl E. Kurbel (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Series: Progress in IS
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is about running modern industrial enterprises with the help of information systems.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the core of business informa­tion processing. An ERP system is the backbone of most companies' information systems landscape. All major business pro­cesses are han­dled with the help of this system.

Supply chain management (SCM) looks beyond the individual company, taking into account that enterprises are increasingly concen­trating on their core com­petencies, leaving other activities to suppliers. With the growing dependency on the partners, effective supply chains have become as important for a com­pany's suc­cess as efficient in-house processes.

This book covers typical business processes and shows how these processes are implemented. Examples are presented using the leading systems on the market – SAP ERP and SAP SCM. In this way, the reader can understand how business processes are actually carried out "in the real world".

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Business Information Systems....Pages 1-17
MRP: Material Requirements Planning....Pages 19-60
MRP II: Manufacturing Resource Planning....Pages 61-93
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning....Pages 95-126
Case: SAP ERP....Pages 127-157
ERP System Implementation....Pages 159-188
Manufacturing Systems....Pages 189-220
SCM: Supply Chain Management....Pages 221-247
SCM Data Structures and Advanced Planning....Pages 249-271
Case: SAP SCM....Pages 273-306
Current and Future Trends....Pages 307-336
Back Matter....Pages 337-359

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)