Re: Is ERP dead?

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Booth,

In a message dated 5/26/00 10:05:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
boothm@earth.Goddard.edu writes:

> The featured speaker at our recent AS/400 User Group meeting made the 
>  off-hand remark that ERP is dead.  When did this happen? Who is next of 
>  kin?

Thanks!  I think you just gave me my next IMHO topic.  ERP was dead before 
they came up with the acronym, just as it died as JIT, MRP II, and MRP before 
it.  ERP, or whatever acronym you use, is a company-wide commitment requiring 
an average of 18 months to implement.  Most companies, especially in today's 
"what have you done for me in the last quarter" stock market, don't have the 
stones to properly implement ERP.  After three or more failed attempts 
(failed because they didn't commit the proper resources other than money) 
most companies just gave up.  Don't give me that "e-commerce" crap as a 
replacement, either.  You can't get a decent ATP (available to promise) 
without having either an ERP system in place or more warehouse space than 
God.  Note the companies that failed in e-commerce last Christmas were the 
ones that took orders but didn't know that they couldn't fill them...

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score."  -- Marianne Espinosa 
Murphey
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