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Sandeep Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 11: ERP-II

unit 11: erp-ii notes

contents
Objectives
Introduction
11.1 Exploring ERP-II

11.1.1 Enterprise Systems in Retrospect
11.1.2 New Business Requirements
11.2 What are the Added Features in ERP II?
11.3 What the Future Holds for ERP?
11.4 An Introduction into Open Source ERP Technologies

11.5 What are the Facilities Offered by Web-enabled ERP Services?
11.6 Benefits of ERP Logistics Package
11.6.1 Central Components
11.6.2 Corporate Components

11.6.3 Collaborative Components
11.6.4 The Adoption of Next-generation Enterprise Systems
11.7 Summary
11.8 Keywords
11.9 Self Assessment

11.10 Review Questions
11.11 Further Readings

objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

l z Discuss the concept of ERP-II
l z State the added features in ERP-II
l z Explain the open source ERP technologies
l z Realise the ERP logistics package benefits

introduction

“ERP is dead-long live ERP II” is the title of a path-breaking research note from GartnerGroup
In this research note GartnerGroup envisions how enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors
will respond to market challenges and how ERP and ERP strategies will have evolved by 2005.
GartnerGroup defines ERP II as a transformation of ERP into next-generation enterprise systems.
Today the major vendors have adopted this concept into their ERP packages.

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