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

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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.

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.

the dynamics of operations management by Avraham Shtu