Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning [ERP] is a framework for organizing, defining and standardizing the business processes necessary to effectively plan, execute, control and monitor supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance. An ERP system itself provides extensive linked databases of information including part master records, product bills of material, process plans, repositories of cost and sales information, financial details, analysis of product and customer hierarchies and historical as well as current transactional data. The focus of this workshop is to provide an introduction with supporting detail related to the ERP integrated structure, how it relates to supply chain management, and all of the related processes.