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About the book
Some companies use information to innovate, control
costs, or capture new markets.
What is new in this ERP book? Unlike other ERP textbooks, this book gives actual data entry screens, reports, and master files details for practical learning. This book is a good reference for various key functions managers, such as accounts, purchase, sales, production, etc. It is not just a book but also a companion for corporate commandos. This ERP book might not seem extra-ordinary, but it is. Business processes integrated in ERP should have already been demystified, but it has not been.
What does this ERP book offer to lecturers, faculties, consultants? The book is projected to be a comprehensive guide to all aspects of deploying ERP within an organization. Reader will find that this ERP book has a good range of case studies to support their teaching.
Who should use this ERP book? This book is useful for existing ERP users and ERP power-users as well. Senior managers and directors, CEO, CFO, COO, seeking to deploy ERP to benefit their organization. For companies who have deployed ERP but not able to understand why real benefit is not seen. Study of this book will reveal the mistakes made by management, ERP coordinators, ERP task force, or ERP steering committee. Use this book before, during and after ERP is deployed, as a reference material. The knack to making informed decisions is necessary for success. Yet many times, managers make vital decisions without real information. Use this book to understand how you can use ERP to enhance your decision-making aptitude. This book will be of immense value to professionals dealing with ERP implementation, I. T. professionals, mangers handling sales and distribution, logistic, supply chain and finance.
MBA Students: This ERP book will be very useful to the B-Schools students who want to pursue their MBA. All these aspiring managers must know ERP well. In the interviews now on companies will not ask whether you know MS office or not, they will ask, “Do you know ERP”? This will be useful for managers working in small and medium size enterprises (SME).
ERP Case studies: The author has worked on live ERP projects for over 200 organizations, in India and abroad. This is result of some twenty years of practical ERP experience. The author had an opportunity to offer I. T. solutions to small and large organizations, private and Government organizations. The ERP book also includes several case studies to illustrate various points in the book. This important book gives tactics about ERP implementation. The need has never been more crucial. Global economic scenario is unpredictable. The competition is increasing. Business executives are challenged to leverage I. T., to improve the enterprise performance. This book attempts to answer questions such as, ‘How do you become a strategic ERP consultant, that enables efficient business management and improve operational efficiency?’ ERP is also evolving. Author discusses the emerging developments and compelling ‘Business Process Management’ (BPM) for success.
What can ERP do for the SME? Act confidently. Improve operational efficiency. Give the enterprise the edge it needs to succeed. Study this book to see why even small and medium business (SMB) units are using ERP software to achieve a competitive advantage.
The decision making process is enriched if additional, relevant information is available. However, collecting information is costly. Hence, cost of additional information need also to be controlled. ERP will help user in this aspect immensely. Decision making under uncertainly will be facilitated. ERP is synonym to the ‘DSS’ or Decision support system.
This ERP book explains how ERP as a management tool, in a SME is a powerful and strategic set of applications that provides business visibility with real-time personalized access to enterprise data, for the purpose of analyzing, and benchmarking customers, suppliers, and the overall business' performance.
This book discusses the common questions asked, to run a manufacturing company efficiently: Do you get information when you want? Do you have islands of information? Is stores-in-charge able to give you correct quantity of raw material in stock, as of now? Is purchase order linked to material inwards? Is inventory and accounts integrated?
The companion website: Faculty and students can use the online resource for this book on this website http://www.dnserp.com. This companion website will be helpful for students as well as lecturers. Make the most of your studies.
This book attempts to answer all questions about ERP that you wanted to ask, but did not know whom to ask…. Learning Objectives
“What is in it for me?” [WIIIFM]. Upon completion of this book, reader will be able to:
1. Describe the concept of ERP. 2. Define key terms as they relate to ERP. 3. Understand the Material Requirement Planning and supply chain management. 4. State the benefits of ERP. 5. State the pitfalls of ERP implementations. 6. Understand the need for change management or Business Process Reengineering. 7. Learn about the MIS or Management Information System. 8. Understand the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). 9. Write a business case to justify an ERP implementation 10. Align strategic goals, people, knowledge processes, and internal systems 11. Concept of business processes linking with other processes. 12. Understand a key business processes. Improve and simplify a business process. Apply the result of business process analysis to an ERP implementation. 13. Explain the interrelationships among the core business processes of sales order, Bill of Materials (BOM), and work order to production. 14. Describe the technological infrastructure requirements in implementing ERP. 15. Describe project management and its use in implementing an ERP system. Describe steps necessary to successfully implement an ERP system 16. Describe the roles and responsibilities of the key organization players or stakeholders. 17. Describe how ERP can be used to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. For more information on ERP book by Mr. Zaveri on Email j.zaveri@dnserp.com |
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Study PowerPoint presentations along with the ERP book. Foreword Foreword of ERP book by Dr. P. C. Shejwalkar, Director – IME, President ASM, Ex –Dean. Faculty of Management & Professor Emeritus of Commerce & Management Sciences, University of Pune.
"ERP as a concept and as a business process model is of recent development. You have written the book specifically for the functional managers targeting the SME sector (Small and Medium size Enterprises). This book exhaustively covers different modules in the industries and also actual data entry screens, reports, master files of the business processes and sufficient case studies to understand the ERP in practice. ....I would certainly like everyone concerned to use this book for reference purposes."
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