Enterprise Resource Planning Learning Resources

What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a term usually used in conjunction with ERP software or an ERP system which is intended to manage all the information and functions of a business or company from shared data stores.

An ERP system typically has modular hardware and software units and "services" that communicate on a local area network. The modular design allows a business to add or reconfigure modules (perhaps from different vendors) while preserving data integrity in one shared database that may be centralized or distributed. wikipedia

Infor ERP Baan

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Product Overview

Infor ERP Baan is an advanced ERP solution that supports the complex manufacturing requirements of industrial equipment and machinery, high-tech electronics, component producers, commercial aerospace, ship building and other companies. A fully integrated solution, Infor ERP Baan provides multi-plant business process modeling and delivers information visibility for decision-makers. Infor ERP Baan helps make-to-stock, assemble-to-order, make-to-order, and engineer-to-order companies lower their total cost of technology ownership.

Infor ERP Baan provides core manufacturing and planning functionality on a scalable, multi-language, open-systems platform. It provides flexible business operations support across all departments, including finance.

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Infor ERP Baan is anchored on Infor's "enrich, extend, and evolve" product strategy and Infor Open SOA (service-oriented architecture). This means customers can expect Infor to make an ongoing investment in the business-specific capabilities they need to meet their diverse business challenges and ever-changing needs.

Infor CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

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> Marketing

Real-time customer decision management and permission-based marketing.
Customers increasingly want to interact with your company when it’s convenient for them, not you. This may require a major shift from the way you currently market products and services. But this challenge can be overcome when you’re able to use real-time customer information from across the enterprise to present offers at the moment customer attention is at its highest.

Infor’s CRM marketing solution enables you to make intelligent decisions about customers in real time across all touch points. You can make better use of inbound customer contacts as a channel to present offers, run more targeted outbound campaigns that are sensitive to customer preferences, and manage all your marketing resources more effectively.

Infor’s CRM marketing software helps companies like yours:

Make intelligent customer decisions in real time
Determine the optimal message for every customer
Synchronize marketing campaigns across inbound and outbound channels
Create stronger, more valuable customer relationships
Improve cross-sell/up-sell rates and customer loyalty

Infor combines the key CRM software marketers need—powerful analytics, best-of-breed campaign management, real-time interaction optimization, and scalable database management. Three key components help you improve profitability by retaining customers and increasing lifetime customer value:

Interaction Advisor —creates real-time customer profiles based on historical, personal, and contextual data and then applies a unique combination of real-time analytics and business rules to identify the highest-impact offers at the moment of interaction.

Outbound Marketing —provides an integrated database marketing solution for planning, executing, and monitoring permission- and event-based campaigns across all touch points. Integrated OLAP and predictive analytics enable you to evaluate customer information for profiling, forecasting, segmentation, and other purposes.

Macola ERP

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Macola ERP is the only ERP solution designed for the mid-market with native Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities, including powerful exception management tools. It's a state-of-the-art ERP solution that truly helps manage and unify the entire enterprise. Using Macola ERP, processes and exceptions are defined by management, automated, and used to enable far more consistent and efficient execution of business policies. With Macola ERP, most customers find that they improve their revenue per employee ratio while delivering higher levels of customer service and accuracy.

Macola ERP includes applications that manage accounting, distribution and manufacturing activities as well as workflow, document management, human resources management, customer relationship management and project management. Macola ERP is a revolutionary application that is web-based and operates in a Microsoft SQL environment. It is easy to implement and use and has the ability to accommodate rapid growth and change requirements. Macola provides unprecedented levels of organizational visibility, control and measurement. Exact Software's greatest innovation with Macola ES is that we enable our customers to innovate!

Beyond ERP Podcast

Beyond ERP — Take your organization to the next level by extending access to all company information to the entire organization, making information available at any time instantly from coast to coast to around the world.

» Financial Accounting
» Manufacturing
» Distribution
» Document Management
» Knowledge Management
» Workflow Management
» Customer Relationship Management
» Human Resource Management (HRM)
» Project Management
» Payroll
» Customer Service Management
» Procurement
» Web portals
(customers, employees, resellers, suppliers)

Lawson Business Process Automation

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Lawson Business Process Automation

Customized to Your Organizational and End-User Needs

What if you could improve your business process automation and your overall workflow? What if you could promote business effectiveness and efficiency and still expect innovation, flexibility, and easy integration with technology? You can with business process management software solutions from Lawson.

Lawson Business Process Management is your platform to run all your administrative and operational system applications. Based on standard, industry-leading products from IBM, it provides an environment to run the applications, manage security and user access, enable integration with other systems and devices, and ensure you get the price performance from your hardware and software configuration. Your result is a stable and secure environment, excellent performance, lower total cost of ownership (TCO), and unparalleled agility to integrate and personalize the applications.

Lawson M3 Business Process Management

Services oriented architecture (SOA), web services, IBM-standard process automation for your manufacturing or distribution related enterprise.

Lawson S3 Business Process Management

Services oriented architecture (SOA), web services, IBM-standard process automation for your services sector enterprise.

IFS Solutions

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Solutions for managing your...

Assets

Business Modeling

Corporate Performance

Customers

Documents
Financials

Human Resource

Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul

Manufacturing

Product Lifecycles
Project Centric Businesses

Quality Management

Service Management

Supply Chain Management

Value Chain Collaboration

IFS provides a broad range of enterprise, manufacturing, service management and asset management solutions. An integral part of IFS Applications, IFS’ solutions seamlessly work together enabling companies to employ lean enterprise concepts, control costs, manage projects, increase efficiencies in their supply chain, and measure their performance.

IFS Architecture and Technology—building for change

Ever get the feeling that whenever your business changes, your business system takes twice as long to catch up? That’s what can happen when the system’s basic design isn’t flexible enough to meet the rapidly changing demands of your industry or market. IFS Applications combines the benefits of service-oriented architecture and components to give your business the agility it needs to stay one step ahead of the competition.

IFS Applications—Solutions for the Agile Enterprise

IFS Applications is the logical enterprise application choice for the modern company that wants to remain agile and competitive in today’s rapidly changing global market. Built on over 20 years of industry experience, it offers customers complete IT support with leading edge industry specific functionality.

IFS Applications Component Chart

IFS Applications is an on-demand business application. Its component-based architecture provides for fast, step-by-step implementation, which lets companies get rapid payback by adding new functionality without waiting for a major overhaul. Take a look at IFS Applications component chart.

Oracle Financial Analytics

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Get Accurate, Timely, Transparent Reporting and Better Compliance
Understand and manage the key drivers of shareholder value and profitability. Oracle Financial Analytics helps front-line managers improve financial performance with complete, up-to-the-minute information on their department's expenses and revenue contributions. Hundreds of key performance indicators and more than 200 reports enable financial managers to improve cash flow, lower costs, and increase profitability while maintaining more accurate, timely, and transparent financial reporting that helps ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

BENEFITS

Payables—Assess cash-management and monitor operational effectiveness of the payables department to ensure lowest transaction costs

Receivables—Monitor DSOs and cash cycles to manage working capital, manage collections, and control receivables risk

General Ledger—Manage financial performance across locations, customers, products, and territories, and receive real-time alerts on events that may impact financial condition

Profitability—Identify most profitable customers, products, and channels, and understand profitability drivers across regions, divisions, and profit centers

SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio

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SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio

Strategic Alignment, Predictable Performance, and Confident Decisions

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Get a free trial or purchase SAP BusinessObjects offerings designed for small businesses and midsize companies.

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SAP BusinessObjects offers a broad portfolio of tools and applications designed to help you optimize business performance by connecting people, information, and businesses across business networks.

Solutions for Large Enterprises

SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions – Leverage SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions that can empower your users to make effective, informed decisions based on solid data and analysis.

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version for SAP NetWeaver

Business Warehouse – Unite intuitive information search and exploration functionality with the high performance and scalability of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator.

SAP BusinessObjects information management solutions – Take advantage of

SAP BusinessObjects information management (IM) solutions that can help you deliver integrated, accurate, and timely data – both structured and unstructured – across your enterprise.

SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions –
Capitalize on the value of your corporate data, enabling your organization to become more agile and competitive by providing organizational alignment, visibility, and greater confidence.

SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance solutions – Promote corporate accountability by unifying corporate strategy, control initiatives, opportunity discovery, and loss mitigation across the extended enterprise.

Solutions for Small Businesses and Midsize Companies

SAP BusinessObjects Edge solutions – Benefit from interactive, open business intelligence and performance management solutions for midsize companies.

Crystal Reports – Leverage a complete report management solution for small companies.

Xcelsius – Leverage dynamic and customizable data visualization software.
Free trials – Benefit from fully functional software available as a free download for a 30-day trial.

Free ERP software

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Adempiere

Apache OFBiz

BlueErp

Compiere

Dolibarr

ERP5

FrontAccounting

GNU Enterprise

IntarS

JFire

OpenAccounting

OpenERP

Openbravo

Opentaps

PhreeBooks

Postbooks

Tryton

WebERP

Major ERP Sofware Vendors

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SAP

Oracle

Infor Global

The Sage Group

Microsoft Dynamics (Formerly Microsoft Business Solutions)

Unit 4 Agresso

CDC Software

Lawson Software

Epicor

Visma

Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS)

QAD

Consona Corporation

COA Solutions

NetSuite

ABAS Software

Ramco Systems

SIV.AG

CDC Software

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Top 5 ERP vendors

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1. SAP

2. Oracle Applications

3. The Sage Group

4. Microsoft Dynamics

5. SSA Global Technologies