OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN: DECISIONS & CASES (Mcgraw-hill Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780077835439
Author: Roger G Schroeder, M. Johnny Rungtusanatham, Susan Meyer Goldstein
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15.7, Problem 1OL
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To determine: Whom to call, in case a firm decides to start a food manufacturing business and needed a dedicated ERP tailored to the industry.
Introduction:
An MRP system is the fundamental base for operations planning and control. However, to ensure the coverage of planning into accounts, finance, human resources, purchasing, quality control, inventory control besides marketing and sales, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in necessary. There are well known vendors of ERP like SAP, Oracle and so on who are general purpose ERP vendors, whose software has to be customized not only to the specific industry segment but also to a particular customer.
There are also ERP vendors like JustFoodERP who are specialized vendors of the ERP system which are tailored to the food manufacturing industry.
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN: DECISIONS & CASES (Mcgraw-hill Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
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