Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System - An Effective Tool for Production Management.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) System:- An Effective Tool for Production Management.
Introduction:-
Organization nowadays is frequently searching for the best ways to improve their business performance in more effective process in order to sustain competitive advantages in the global market .to achieve the goals, the manufacturing needs to upgrade their production technology in order to improve their productivity.
This article adopts a case study appoach to investigate the investigate the selection and implementation activities in a manufacturing company in Greece focusing mainly on Production management aspect .Independent of size of the company .an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can either boost or doom a company, if implemented successfully or unsuccessfully. There is a great deal of supporting evidence from the literature ,mainly from large manufacturing and service organisation . Over the years business application have evolved from management information system with no decision support to corporate information system .which offer some decision supplort to ERP. It is a software solution that meets the need of organization, taking into account the process view to meet an organization goal while incorporporating all the functions of organization .
ERP Systems goal is to provide insight into the ERP functionality with respect to production and thus the selection of an actual business case proves how the enterprises successfully implemented and integrated such a system , highlighting the processes used,the obstacles faced and how they were overcome,as well as the gains achieved.Finally ,it provides useful information and practicle suggestions that may help production managers and users to get a better understanding of how to deploy such system.
Conclusion:-
ERP System may be expensive but it offers Organizations a cost efficient system inthe long run . ERP System enables an organization to improve the productivity and better performance by its integration features through the entire business process. ERP system helps an organization to run its globally business effectively in a timely manner through the standardization of the information .besides that,it is difficult for an organization to implement the ERP system without any knowledge and consideration.the biggest challenge of ERP implementation is the system breakdown .By understanding the features of the ERP system and its complexity ,an organization has the ability to face those challenges by having a good management and planning during the implementation.