Articles

Articles Links

• The Merchant Prince Sears exec Joe Laughlin shows how this venerable, old-line retailer adopts the power of "e-" and goes from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in one fell swoop. By David Baum, Profit Magazine.
  
• Making Change Philip Diehl, June 2000, Darwin Magazine. The U.S. Mint's Philip Diehl found that overseeing an enterprisewide systems project is no easy task. Especially when you've got a deadline you can't afford to miss.
  
• ERP Resources in an E-Business World Acticle by B. Zrimsek for Gartner Group. Market demands have caused SIs to shift resources from ERP to e-business, making it difficult for user organizations to garner the resources needed to support ERP evolution.
  
• Applying ERP solutions to the public safety and justice sector. IBM article November, 2000. ERP implementations would serve to integrate and modernize public-safety and criminal-justice agencies.
  
• Knowledge management appears on ERP radar Alan Radding, Earthweb, February 2000. As organizations plot their future use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, knowledge management will increasingly pop up on the radar screen.
  
• Distribution vs. ERP Article by Scott S. Deutsch published in Modern Distribution Management concerning the colliding worlds of wholesale distribution and supply chain ERP.
  
• The road to extended ERP Roberto Michel, in Manufacturing Systems March 2000, provides information on manufacturers pursuing diverse strategies for adding CRM, APS, business intelligence functions to ERP backbones.
  
• ERP Success Isn't All in the Software Janet Gould, HP World. How attention to hardware "Smarts" pays off.
  
• The Missing Link CIO article by Lee Pender concerning how information from the back end of ERP doesn't always make it into e-commerce applications.
  
• Application Service Provisioning Abstract - September 1, 2000 The globalized, digital economy is placing new demands on enterprises to become faster and more efficient at the management of information, even while the enterprise becomes ever more extended and complex. EDS sponsored article.
  
• Using an Enterprise Information Portal to Enhance Your ERP System Article by Shai Agassi argues that Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) are a new explosive software category allowing IT departments to deliver relevant data and cross-application access to users at the desktop level. Article presented by TopTier Software.
  
• Realizing the Promise of ERP and e-Commerce by Automating Financing and Collections White paper on the potential negative effects of adding ERP on receivables collections by Kelly Cundiff, published in Midrange ERP. PDF format.
  
• Avoiding Buyers Remorse Samuel Greengard, Business Finance Magazine, November, 2000. There are substantial advantages to outsourcing enterprise applications, including ERP software and this article discusses the benefits.
  
• ERP vendors stake claim to application outsourcing market Philip J. Gill, Earthweb, September 01, 1999. For a monthly fee, companies get a quick ERP solution at a fraction of the cost.
  
• The ABCs of ERP. What is ERP? The ABCs of ERP. Compiled from reports by Christopher Koch, Derek Slater and E. Baatz
  
• The Vision - Special Report: The Integrated Enterprise - CIO Magazine May 15, 2000 By Derek Slater. Getting to the truly integrated enterprise should not be a piecemeal journey. You've got to have a vision of where you're going in order to get there.
  
• Aligning Your Data Collection and ERP Implementation Decisions This white paper explores the importance of Automated Data Collection and how it can improve an ERP that is already in place. PDF format.
  
• ASPs are hot, but will the fire cool? The rapid growth of today's application service provider market can't extinguish an ongoing debate on the benefits the business model offers to enterprise application users. EarthWeb, June 01, 2000 by Alan Radding
  
• A Stitch in Time Linda Eiland Clark, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, October, 2000. Creating a knowledge transfer framework for your ERP implementation can mean the difference between losing and leveraging your most valuable asset.
  
• Making the move to XML Next-Generation E-Business. XML adoption survey. August 15, 2000.
  
• Walking The Razors Edge: Threaded Simultaneous Supply Chain Planning This white paper explains the difference between Supply Chain Planning(SCP) systems and ERP systems and then argues that threaded simultaneous SCP systems allow a company to better serve customers by organizing better and coordinating internal and partner activities.
  
• ERP: still alive in the Internet age Thomas Davenport, Network World, February, 28, 2000. Over the past decade, two major innovations have transformed the way companies build and operate information systems: the Internet and its associated e-commerce technologies, and enterprise resource planning systems.
  
• What is ERP? Derek Slater, CNN, May 28, 1999. Discusses ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning, a software system that aims to serve as a backbone for your whole business (from CIO).
  
• Big Risk for Small Fry Wayne D. Bennett, CIO Magazine, May 15, 2000. Contractual tips for new entrants in the ERP game.
  
• Taking your ERP system 24x7x365 Karen D. Schwartz, EarthWeb April 01, 1999. The challenges inherent in making an ERP system available all day, every day are daunting, but Texas Instruments proves it can be done.
  
• ERP Training Stinks Malcolm Wheatley, CIO Magazine June 1, 2000. As ERP implementations falter and fail, many people think the answer is more training. They're wrong.