Lecture 1

Business strategies to resource planning:

• Single custom built software
  • Build custom for the specific company needs.
  • Can be a competitive weapon.
• Service Orchestration and Integration
  • Mix of softwares as a service (SaaS).
• Single vendor standardization:
  • Use an ERP and services only from 1 company.
• Combining various ERPs and packages
  • aka. 'best of breed'

ERP

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are configurable software that integrate information and information-based processes within and across functional areas in an organization.

Examples of ERPs:

• Microsoft Dynamics
• SAP
• Odoo
• Oracle Cloud