Integrating Erp, Supply Chain Management, and Smart Materials

• Evolving opportunities that will develop from the implementation of smart materials, automatic identification, classification systems, and quality assurance projects
• Auditing the implementation, operation, and maintenance of ERP and CRM software as well as the corrective action taken on the basis of results Internet commerce, online supply chain, and advances in technology - all available at increasingly lower costs - make systems of the past obsolete.

Contents

• Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning and the Search for Cost Control
• Functionality and Cost/Effectiveness of ERP Systems
• Why Companies Adopt and Use ERP Software for Supply Chain Management
• Implementing Successive Releases of ERP Systems
• A Sound Methodology for Enterprise Management: GE's Six Sigma
• Organizational Prerequisites for Smart Materials and for Automatic Identification
• The Next Frontier in Technology and in Supply Chain Management: Automatic Identification
• Advances Underpinning Development and Use of the Electronic Product Code
• The Chorafas Classification/Identification System for Supply Chain Requirements
• Practical Implementations of the DCS Solution
• Outsourcing Software Support and Management of the Vendor Relationship
• Web-Based Solutions to Enterprise Management
• Supply Chain Software and Enterprise Resource Planning
• Outsourcing Has Become One of the Major IT Challenges
• Policies in Outsourcing and Regulatory Issues
• Auditing the Implementation, Operation and Maintenance of ERP Software
• The Ongoing Change in the Practice of Auditing Information Technology
• Auditing Supply Chain Solutions and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
• Case Studies in Auditing a Company's Financial Statements and Other Reports
• Auditing the Security/Protection Methodology and Providing Improvements