Gaining a competitive advantag

Gaining a competitive advantage through ERP Organizations today confront new markets, new competition and increasing customer expectations. Thus today's organizations have to constantly re-engineer their business practices and procedures to be more and more responsive to customers and competition. In the 1990's Information technology and Business Process re-engineering, used in conjunction with each other, have emerged as important tools which give organizations the leading edge. The efficiency of an enterprise depends on the quick flow …

…their business, where a customized application has to be rebuilt. What these applications do is capture data about historical activity, current operations and future plans, and organize that in a way people can use. When you look at the flexibility in big ERP systems, once implemented, they can look entirely different from one organization to another, a set of building blocks, and it's how you put those building blocks together that gives you an advantage.