Abstract
Many studies on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market have indicated that very few ERPs have succeeded to fully meet the expectations of an organisation in particularly the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This is usually due to commercial reasons, because most of the ERP systems are primarily designed and developed for large corporations which is not suitable for simplified and rapidly changing SMEs. With the arrival of licence free open source ERPs and at an affordable price, the problem of capital shortage in SMEs is partially resolved while flexibility remains a problem. In order to solve the flexibility issue, this paper presents methods of (a) an industrial survey and (b) a multistage initiation model to compare open source ERPs and the advantages of conventional ERP’s modular structure to propose an alternative ERP platform. The finding concludes that this alternative platform is feasible to be developed by users as well as flexible enough for growing SMEs in manufacturing.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 12 Sept 2012 |
| Event | ICMR 2012: International Conference on Manufacturing Research 2012 - Aston University, Birmingham, UK Duration: 12 Sept 2012 → … http://www1.aston.ac.uk/aston-business-school/research/events/icmr-2012/ http://www1.aston.ac.uk/aston-business-school/research/events/past-events/icmr-2012/ |
Conference
| Conference | ICMR 2012: International Conference on Manufacturing Research 2012 |
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| Period | 12/09/12 → … |
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