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The road to ERP optimization.(enterprise resource planning)

Government Finance Review

| December 01, 2004 | Harris, James | COPYRIGHT 2004 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Imagine that you work for a forward-thinking public sector organization that has decided to invest in an enterprise resource planning system, or ERP as it is commonly known. (1) Given that your organization has historically operated using a nest of aging legacy systems--including disparate spreadsheets, database files, and forests of hardcopy documents--you have concluded that the inefficiencies and processing costs of running your organization are such that a change is needed. You're convinced that an ERP solution would help bring your organization into the new millennium by updating your business applications, improving business processes, and providing the information ...

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