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Enterprise Resource Planning Sandeep Kumar, Lovely Professional University

notes unit 10: erp future Directions

contents
Objectives
Introduction
10.1 New Market

10.2 New Channels
10.3 Future Directions in ERP
10.4 Faster Implementation Methodologies
10.5 Application Platforms
10.6 New Business Segments

10.7 Web Enabling & Snapshot
10.8 Business Models and Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)
10.9 Summary
10.10 Keywords

10.11 Self Assessment
10.12 Review Questions
10.13 Further Readings

objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

l z Know about new markets and new channels
l z Discuss the faster implementation methodology
l z Identify new business segment
l z State the concept of web enabling

introduction

ERP provides perfect solution in the Back-office practices. The areas such as, financial
management, human resources and basic manufacturing ERP system has already proved its
strength. ERP systems also solved the Y2K problem and provide the solution to the industry.
This result in the increasing demand for the investments in the front office applications such as
e-commerce, SCM and HR – customer self-services. As the demand raises, the top – five ERP
vendor moves forward to the new technologies. The vendors like SAP, BAAN, PeopleSoft and
J D Edwards refocus their energies into Front-office such as, customer management and SCM
e.g. checkout and fuel significant business growth.

Traditionally, ERP applications provide multi module suites of business management,
human – resources, accounting and payroll. ERP vendors started with IBM mainframe, ASI400
DEC or HP minicomputer platforms and then moved towards the client / server technology and
UNIX platforms.

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