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Tame the ERP Beast
INTRODUCTION
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are an integral part of every
manufacturing company. Every employee, at some level, uses the ERP
system, whether to process transactions, record information, or just read
reports. e daily functioning of your company is totally dependent on
your ERP system. ink about how many times work stops when “the
system is down.”
ERP systems are information beasts (Figure10.1). ey are designed to
collect and report unlimited amounts of information based on how a com-
pany designs the setup of the soware. All ERP systems are designed on
traditional manufacturing management pract ...