Nezami, Mehran, Cheung, Wai Ming and Mansi, Safwat (2012) Adoption of Open Source and conventional ERP solutions for small and medium enterprises in manufacturing. In: ICMR 2012: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, 11-13 September 2012, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
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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.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | H300 Mechanical Engineering H700 Production and Manufacturing Engineering |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering |
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| Depositing User: | Ay Okpokam |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2013 16:00 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2021 01:49 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/11184 |
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