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ERP Implementationin VIT

byAyyappan.R Bhuvana.BKandaswamy.CKanu PriyaMahendran.SMohammed Naufal

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION32. EVOLUTION OF ERP73. TRENDS IN ERP134. IMPLEMENTATION OF ERP IN VIT155. PEOPLE SOFT306. SOME RECOMMENDATIONS357. CONCLUSION388. REFERENCES39

Introduction

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ERP is an acronym that stands for Enterprise Resource Planning.

ERP isa package software solution that addresses the enterprise needs of an

organization by tightly integrating the various functions of an organizationusing a process view of the organization. It is a package software and not acustom made software for a specific firm.It gives a company an integrated real-time view of its core business processes.The term ERP originally implied systems designed to plan the use of enterprise-wide resources.Although theinitialismERP originated in themanufacturing environment, today's use of the term ERP systems has much broader scope. ERP systems typically attempt to cover all basic functions of anorganization, regardless of the organization's business or charter. Businesses,non-profit organizations, nongovernmental organizations, governments, andother large entities utilize ERP systems.It is the technological backbone of e-business,an enterprisewidetransaction framework with links into different units in the company.ERPincludes in its breadth all the resource planning for the enterprise including product design, information warehousing, material planning, capacity planningand communications system, to name just a few.ERP integrates the functional modules tightly. It is not merely the importand export of data across the functional modules.

It integrates alldataand processes of an organization into a unified system.

A typical ERP system willuse multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve theintegration.

The integration ensures that the logic of a process that cuts acrossthe function is captured genuinely. This in turn implies that data once entered inany of the functional modules is made available to every other module thatneeds this data. This leads to significant improvements by way of improvedconsistency and integrity of data.Comaparing to its previous softwares, ERP uses the relational databases,fourth generation languages, integrated computer-aided engineering tools suchas product data managers(PDM), and open-system portability to integratesystems such as advanced planning and scheduling(APS), finite schedulingsystems, and manufacturing execution systems(MES).The APS tools that are part of a fully integrated ERP system provide excellent “what if” scenarios for the manager to determine the most beneficial mix of orders and customers.ERPs are often incorrectly called back officesystems indicating thatcustomersand the general public are not directly involved. This is contrasted

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