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Maximizing Your ERP System: A Practical Guide for Managers

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The book covers most of common components in the implementation of Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP). It's well organized book, which you can learn in step-by-step manner. IT managers can also have a short-cut reference to some major concepts in the process of ERP implementation and the structure of book can provide easy access to relevant part of concerned area. The book has also provided pros-and-cons for different scenario. For example, it indicate the advantages of using specific costing methods used for specific industries or cases.

The title of the book and the table of contents seem to portray the book as a dry guide into the innards of an ERP system. But this is not the case. The author does a great job of keeping business considerations in plain view (primarily); and then showing how to use an ERP system to support those business considerations (secondarily). He calls this a "contingency-based" approach to the use of the ERP system.

This book is not for everyone, but it was excellent for my particular needs. I am a Product Manager. I had already taken an elementary course on manufacturing in business school. And yet, when I sat in meetings with my colleagues from manufacturing, I had only a hazy understanding of their vocabulary and methods. I was looking for a book to bridge that gap. And this book hit the spot.

"Maximizing Your ERP System" is broad in its coverage, but skeletal. It is one dry read, like an outline with a lot of repeated boilerplate blown in where the meat was supposed to be. It lays out some details excrutiatingly (like the composition of the manufacturing database) but there's no sense of life or color to hold things together. More of a dictionary than a treatise, I recommend it for the vocabulary you might gain, but don't plan to enjoy it.