The New Generation of ERP System Within Supply Chain Domain
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The New Generation of ERP System ----- Within Supply Chain Domain During the 1990s, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems were widely adopted and regarded as "the information backbone within the four walls of an enterprise" (MMH 2000). It ties together manufacturing, quality assurance, sales, distribution and finance by managing data from each area and plans whole company's resource use, from people to products. However, with the coming of the new millennium, a growing chorus of analysts had given ERP up for dead. Analyst Vinod Khosla of KPMG argued that "enterprise software is a broken model". Internet Week said that ERP systems were "losing some of their luster". Red Herring proclaimed "ER-Party's Over," and The Economist asked, "ERP RIP?" (Richard 1999) This collection, the five articles on "The New Generation of ERP System", (see appendices) argues whether "ERP is dead?", and provides the big picture of the next generation ERP system within the...


