Journal of Enterprise Information Management: Volume 17 Issue 1

Enterprise systems and the supply chain

Thomas H. Davenport, Jeffrey D. Brooks

Early enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems or, more simply, enterprise systems (ES), were not primarily focused on the supply chain. Their initial focus was to execute and…

E‐business process networks – successful value chains through standards

Mathias Kirchmer

In the 1990s, companies focused on the design and implementation of their internal business processes to overcome functional barriers. The 2000s are about the integration between…

Aligning mySAP.com with the future logistics enterprise

Thomas R. Gulledge, Phil Hayes, Alexander Lotterer, Georg Simon

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is engaged in a multi‐year transformation of logistics planning and execution, known as the Future Logistics Enterprise (FLE). It is currently…

The integration of ERP into a logistics curriculum: applying a systems approach

Raymond F. Boykin, Wm. Benjamin Martz

The area of logistics and enterprise resource planning (ERP) have a natural bond in that both deal explicitly with identifying working with business processes. This also generates…

Effectiveness of using an enterprise system to teach process‐centered concepts in business education

Jose H. Noguera, Edward F. Watson

This study investigates whether or not student’s performance, self‐efficacy, and satisfaction are enhanced by the use of an enterprise system as a support tool for learning…