Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Design, Trends and Deployment

The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a famous widespread solution in business organization which is used and verified the integration and automation of the processes, performance improvements, and cost reduction. However, new innovations in technology trends that forced ERP designers to go with the new development. Therefore, new ERP system designs were done to satisfy companies and/or customers by evolving new ERP business models. Moreover, one of the biggest challenges for ERP is to keep speed with a manufacturing sector that has been rapidly moving from product-centric to customer-centric focus. This change required most ERP vendors to add a variety of functions and modules on their core systems, while the basic design of most ERP systems remained product-centric. In…