Future directions in ERP

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Future directions in ERP

The only thing constant is change & more so in the high speed world of technical innovations the question to be asked is whether these changes can affect the ERP market ?
The new cutting edge technologies like Internet commerce & EDI ( electronic date interchange ) & the new business practices involving supply chain & customer self service provide a fresh threat to the ERP technology

New Markets
As large enterprises become saturated with new generation client/server ERP systems , vendors are being forced to find new markets for their products . What they would be doing is
Supplementing their direct sales force with reseller channels
Lowering the entry price point of their soft ware to make it financially viable
Porting their products on platforms such as Microsoft Windows NT

New channels
Vendors such as SAP AG inc , Oracle Corporation , & Baan co have been building reseller channels – both in us & world wide –
This is because the future targets for this companies will be the smaller businesses that are looking for the complete –one – stop shopping for their ERP solutions

Faster Implementation methodologies
All ERP vendors have suffered from the perception that their soft ware is difficult & costly to implement . SAP has introduced a program called accelerated SAP or ASAP that takes into account knowledge from thousands of R/3 implementations to date & consolidates this expertise in a product called business engineer. This product helps the implementation teams configure the sap modules to conform to the processing style of some 100 business operating scenarios this helps reduce the sap implementation to less than 6 months in many cases

Business models & BAPIs
Using products like Intellicorps live model , implementation teamscan review & simulate changes to the SAP R/3 application reference model that provides views of r/3 processes , data models & functions The reference model & any changes made to it are stored in the live model repository
 
Definition of ERP

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business management software—typically a suite of integrated applications—that a company can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities, including: Product planning, cost. Manufacturing or service delivery. Marketing and sales.

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Future directions in ERP

The only thing constant is change & more so in the high speed world of technical innovations the question to be asked is whether these changes can affect the ERP market ?
The new cutting edge technologies like Internet commerce & EDI ( electronic date interchange ) & the new business practices involving supply chain & customer self service provide a fresh threat to the ERP technology

New Markets
As large enterprises become saturated with new generation client/server ERP systems , vendors are being forced to find new markets for their products . What they would be doing is
Supplementing their direct sales force with reseller channels
Lowering the entry price point of their soft ware to make it financially viable
Porting their products on platforms such as Microsoft Windows NT

New channels
Vendors such as SAP AG inc , Oracle Corporation , & Baan co have been building reseller channels – both in us & world wide –
This is because the future targets for this companies will be the smaller businesses that are looking for the complete –one – stop shopping for their ERP solutions

Faster Implementation methodologies
All ERP vendors have suffered from the perception that their soft ware is difficult & costly to implement . SAP has introduced a program called accelerated SAP or ASAP that takes into account knowledge from thousands of R/3 implementations to date & consolidates this expertise in a product called business engineer. This product helps the implementation teams configure the sap modules to conform to the processing style of some 100 business operating scenarios this helps reduce the sap implementation to less than 6 months in many cases

Business models & BAPIs
Using products like Intellicorps live model , implementation teamscan review & simulate changes to the SAP R/3 application reference model that provides views of r/3 processes , data models & functions The reference model & any changes made to it are stored in the live model repository

Hey sunanda, thanks for sharing the information on Future directions in ERP and i am really impressed by your effort. Well, i am also going to upload a document where you would find the most related information.
 

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