Planning enterprise resources by use of a reengineering approach to build a global logistics management system

Abstract

Theoretically and ideally, enterprise resource planning (ERP) seeks to streamline and integrate operation processes and information flow within a company. Practically, ERP system implementation involves a much broader scope and in‐depth consideration within an organization as a whole. Concurrently, in response to this need for resource optimization, the impact of globalization has caused the emergence of a new business operation format, global logistics management (GLM). This pertains to the overall management system of a corporation’s undertaking of worldwide market distribution, product design, customer satisfaction, production, procurement, logistics, suppliers and inventory. Suggests building an ERP as the backbone for implementation of a GLM system, while minimizing the impact of changes by use of information system reengineering technology (ISRT). Proposes a novel development framework that applies ISRT and ERP to developing a GLM system to economize on the system implementation cost and minimize the impact of changes within the corporation as a whole.

Citation

Huang, S., Kwan, I.S.Y. and Hung, Y. (2001), "Planning enterprise resources by use of a reengineering approach to build a global logistics management system", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 101 No. 9, pp. 483-491. https://doi.org/10.1108/02635570110410672