Description

For courses in Graduate MIS, Decision Support Systems, and courses covering the principles of enterprise resource planning systems.
This text takes a generic approach to enterprise resource planning systems and their interrelationships, covering all functional areas of this new type of management challenge. It discusses the re-design of business processes, changes in organisational structure, and effective management strategies that will help assure competitiveness, responsiveness, productivity, and global impact for many organisations in the years ahead.

Features

• Coverage of all ERP/ERP projects functional areas—Includes production and materials management; sales and marketing; ad accounting and finance. Helps students understand the concepts of organisation, technology, methodology, and management.
• Numerous examples of business requirements—Enhanced through the use of integrated information systems and re-engineered business processes. Illustrates for students the interrelationships among these subsystems.
• Customised approaches to ERP development. Enables students to recognise how ERP systems can provide business results in the form of increased business responsiveness, improved competitiveness, and improved business processes.
• Coverage of concepts, issues, and applications relevant to newer ERP technologies. Familiarises students with decision analysis tools, data warehouses, and Web-based systems supporting eCommerce.
• Coverage of SDLC. Chapter-opening objectives. Alerts students to key content to be covered, and helps them organise their learning and study goals.
• Chapter-end exercises. Gives students the opportunity to apply what they have learned in each chapter before moving on.
• Text-ending integrated case study. Ties together the many facets and details of ERP and ERP projects to give students a working knowledge of the topic.
• Bibliography in each chapter. Supplies students with current research references.

Table of Contents

• Part One Style as Choice
• Lesson One Understanding Style
• Lesson Two Correctness
• Part Two Clarity
• Lesson Three Actions
• Lesson Four Characters
• Lesson Five Cohesion and Coherence
• Lesson Six Emphasis
• Part Three Clarity of Form
• Lesson Seven Motivation
• Lesson Eight Global Coherence
• Part Four Grace
• Lesson Nine Concision
• Lesson Ten Shape
• Lesson Eleven Elegance
• Part Five Ethics
• Lesson Twelve The Ethics of Style
• Appendix i· Punctuation
• Appendix II· Using Sources
• Glossary
• Suggested Answers
• Acknowledgments
• Index