Tham khảo tài liệu 'effective success with enterprise resource planning_11', khoa học xã hội, kinh tế chính trị phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 326 ERP Making It Happen tion. ERP enables the use of B2B to change the way the business operates. One prediction is that ES will be transformed with the Internet. Remember ES is really rapid transactional software that permits the transfer of data from any transaction directly to a central database. However ES has been a difficult system to install with the need to examine every transaction and the routing of every piece of data. This requires a very complex installation that involves every workstation that handles a business transaction. The prediction is that the much of this rigid system could be replaced by use of the Internet. The future of ES could well be BinB or Business in Business. There is no reason why each small segment of the internal supply chain and the rest of the company can t be treated like external suppliers and customers in today s B2B logic. The data can move in a way that is useful across the chain even if the local software is not standardized. BinB could offer a much more user-friendly version of ES. Everything that we have said about the value of ERP and ES will still be true but the work to install and maintain ES will be much simpler. Of course this BinB logic may not even require the Internet as we know it today. Certainly the Internet provides the flexibility required for a changing business environment. But there could be new technologies just over the horizon that make the Internet seem sluggish. Don t bet against rapid and continuous technology change. Remember a big complaint about Enterprise Software as it exists today is that it is as flexible as concrete easy to change when poured but like a rock later. The future for communications between companies and inside companies will be more flexible and much simpler. Choices Here are some examples that illustrate the kind of decisions that companies can make with the time and knowledge provided to them. Your business will probably have different options so these are intended only as
