Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): The Dynamics of Operations Management [Hardcover]

Avraham Shtub (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 1999

Increasingly, corporations are recognizing the strategic role of the operations function. These organizations are discovering that a focus on customer needs is effective only if the operations function is designed and managed to meet those needs. From acquiring raw materials to fabricating parts, to assembling products, to customer delivery, a total systems perspective can enable us, in the ideal, to fashion an operations function like the inner workings of a finely tuned machine. Today that operation can be fine-tuned by using modern information systems. This text presents an enterprise-wide examination of implementing a modern information system in all business processes of a modern business enterprise. Enterprise Resource Planning software systems provide comprehensive management of financial, manufacturing, sales, distribution and human resources across the enterprise. The ability of ERP systems to support data "drill down" and to eliminate the need to reconcile across functions is designed to enable organizations to compete on the performances of the entire supply chain. Until now, there has not been an effective presentation of the dynamics of operation systems illustrating how ERP systems are used. This book and the accompanying software should fill this need. It has been written with an emphasis on manufacturing firms, but the principles it demonstrates are transferable to other types of operation systems. With this in mind, service operations issues have been included as a part of the problems at the end of each chapter. The book and the accompanying software have been designed for use in academic and executive programs aimed at helping researchers, students, and professionals to understand how integrated operational systems work. In terms of the book's use as a course book, a course on planning and control systems would probably be the ideal place in business school settings. Some basic understanding of operating systems is needed by the reader. In an industrial engineering school, the book may give students their first introduction to business issues such as market demand and supplier relationships.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 168 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792384385
• ISBN-13: 978-0792384380
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst decision I made to get this book., February 13, 2001

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This review is from: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): The Dynamics of Operations Management (Hardcover)

I bought this book for 3 reasons; author's instution, title and publisher. After the book arrives, I know I have to change my criterion to buy the book. The book is nothing more than any traditional operation management book plus basic IT that you can see in magazine or cnet.com (cnet.com may be better). No depth, no width. Just a thin book with first year college textbook. Not recommend.

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Short Introductory Guide for ERP, October 3, 2009

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This review is from: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): The Dynamics of Operations Management (Hardcover)

This book has very short chapters that cover ERP in introductory terms. It's an alternative to reading a 50-page article over the Internet, for example. Nothing is covered in depth and the information is not going to raise one to the level of either being conversant on the subject of ERP or give one tools to make a buying decision.

Whenever I get a book like this, which only happens by accident, I always try to discern the motivation of the author. Who was the author writing this for? Of course, since I don't know, I speculate. I hope it's appropriate to speculate here on an Amazon review. My speculation is that this author wrote this book to enhance his career. That would make sense and it would work. Few people read books on technical subjects and therefore authoring such a book would be career enhancing without inviting much scrutiny. And since it's not so easy to put together a book and finance it, I give the author credit.

15 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars erp on as400, July 9, 1999

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