What is Enterprise Resource Planning and why does it matter? Like The Goal, 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, SAP R/3. The story tells of his experience and provides a non-technical, non-programming introduction to the basic concepts and architecture of ERP systems.
What is Enterprise Resource Planning and why does it matter? Like The Goal, 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, SAP R/3. The story tells of his experience and provides a non-technical, non-programming introduction to the basic concepts and architecture of ERP systems.
1- Introduction to ERP The Vacation Is Over At the PlantA New Opportunity The Next Morning Information Crisis The Truth is Out Ohio has SAPOff to School ERP Implementation2- The SAP School First ImpressionsDonuts Introduction to R/3 A First Use of R/3 Best Practices The War Stories SAP ImplementationAccelerated R/3 The R/3 Views of the Firm A DiversionDinner with Amanda At LastA Customer Order Another Demo For ManagementA Financial Application Just For BillyA Manufacturing Example Crunching the Numbers Providing Support Course Wrap UpA Sales Pitch?3- Back at the Plant The Questions ContinueSAP in Carolina? Back at the PlantThings Heat Up Information IntegrationOff to Ohio 4- A Different Business High Volume EfficiencyThe Ohio Plant An R/3 Success Back in Carolina Decision at the TopA Mandate for the Plant It HappensStarting the R/3 Journey The AftermathF. Robert Jacobs is currently department chairman at Indiana University. He has a Ph.D from Ohio State and is past Vice President of the Decision Sciences Institute, Information Technology Coordinator for Decision Sciences Institute for 1997, as well as Associate Editor on the board of the Journal of Operations Management.David Clay Whybark (Chapel Hill, NC) is on the faculty of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.