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5 books on ERP [PDF]
May 22, 2025 | 18 |
These books are covering popular ERP systems, supply chain management, financial integration, human resources management, customer relationship management, inventory control, business process automation and reporting and analytics.
1. ERP and Information Systems: Integration or Disintegration
2015 by Tarek Samara
In the galactically complex universe of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, where acronyms breed faster than Zogonian rabbits and data integration is as elusive as a properly buttered crumpet, ERP and Information Systems: Integration or Disintegration embarks on a quest more perilous than Vogon poetry night. Tarek Samara, with the precision of a quantum physicist and the tenacity of someone trying to understand why the toaster is connected to the Wi-Fi, unravels the mysteries of whether ERP systems help information systems hold hands in harmonious integration—or rudely shove them into a digital disintegration divorce. Guided by a labyrinthine web of factors (which are undoubtedly as fickle as a hyperspace bypass), this book explores how these mischievous variables can nudge ERP systems to either play nice or wreak utter organizational havoc. It’s a deeply insightful dive into the tangled web of technology, logic and the occasional baffling tendency of information systems to self-destruct, all wrapped in the undeniable truth that sometimes, the answer really is 42.
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2. Modern ERP: Select, Implement, and Use Today's Advanced Business Systems
2014 by Marianne Bradford
In a world where businesses cling desperately to the idea that software can solve all their problems (without, of course, creating several new ones), Modern ERP: Select, Implement and Use Today’s Advanced Business Systems serves as a much-needed guide through the perilous terrain of enterprise resource planning—a realm filled with buzzwords, baffling acronyms and the ever-present risk of accidentally deploying an update that erases everything except the company coffee machine settings. Now in its third edition and still blissfully free of vendor propaganda, Marianne Bradford fearlessly tackles the ever-mutating ERP ecosystem, now featuring cloud computing (which is just someone else’s computer), mobility (because offices have mysteriously discovered the existence of smartphones) and business analytics (which aims to make numbers do useful things instead of just sitting there looking smug). With added insights into ERP security, databases and supply chains (which, contrary to popular belief, do not involve actual chains), this book is a vital survival manual for students, managers and anyone who has ever stared at an ERP implementation plan and quietly wept.
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3. Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp) the Great Gamble: An Executive’S Guide to Understanding an Erp Project
2013 by Ray Atkinson
In the grand and bewildering cosmos of business software, where vast sums of money vanish into ERP projects with the efficiency of a black hole swallowing a poorly planned budget, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) – The Great Gamble offers a lifeline to executives who have just been handed an ERP implementation plan and are wondering where it all went wrong. Ray Atkinson, armed with 35 years of experience and what must surely be an iron constitution, peels back the layers of jargon, false optimism and vendor promises made under the influence of strong coffee to reveal the true nature of ERP projects: an elaborate, high-stakes gamble where success is celebrated, failure is litigated and nobody quite remembers how they got there in the first place. Rather than drowning the reader in technical minutiae, this book takes a step back to explain why these projects so often go spectacularly sideways and more importantly, how to avoid becoming the next cautionary tale whispered fearfully in corporate boardrooms. Written in refreshingly human language, it is an essential guide for executives, managers and anyone who has ever wondered why “seamless integration” always seems to involve six months of chaos and an emergency budget review.
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4. Enterprise Resource Planning : A Managerial & Technical Perspective
2007 by S. Parthasarthy
In a universe where managers juggle spreadsheets with the agility of caffeine-fueled octopuses and competition moves faster than an overzealous intern on their first day, *Enterprise Resource Planning: A Managerial & Technical Perspective* attempts the Herculean task of making sense of ERP—an entity as mystifying as the fine print on an intergalactic tax form. S. Parthasarthy bravely navigates this labyrinth, revealing ERP as not just a piece of software but a vast, all-encompassing entity that somehow manages to align corporate mission statements, deeply held beliefs, operating styles and the peculiar habits of those humans who insist on pressing buttons labeled *Do Not Touch.* This book is the missing link between the managerial types who want things to "just work" and the technical wizards who insist that "just work" requires six months of reconfiguration and a sacrificial printer. Packed with case studies and insights, it demystifies ERP with all the grace of an improbability drive attempting to parallel park.
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5. ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, Second Edition
2003 by Carol A Ptak, Eli Schragenheim
In the vast and perplexing world of supply chains—where things are ordered, lost, reordered, misdelivered, found and then mysteriously go out of stock just when you need them—ERP: Tools, Techniques and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain bravely attempts to impose some kind of order on the chaos. Now in its second edition and more updated than the average company’s actual ERP system, Carol A. Ptak and Eli Schragenheim present a guide for business managers who need to plan, manage and execute things without resorting to sacrificial offerings to the gods of inventory. Packed with real-world examples (because theoretical ones tend to be suspiciously well-behaved), this book explains how ERP tools can, in theory, help supply chains run smoothly—assuming, of course, that nobody presses the wrong button, updates the wrong setting, or attempts to "fix" things by rebooting the entire system. Written in a refreshingly clear manner, this book is an indispensable survival guide for anyone who has ever tried to make sense of ERP without accidentally deleting half the warehouse.
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1. ERP and Information Systems: Integration or Disintegration
2015 by Tarek Samara
In the galactically complex universe of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, where acronyms breed faster than Zogonian rabbits and data integration is as elusive as a properly buttered crumpet, ERP and Information Systems: Integration or Disintegration embarks on a quest more perilous than Vogon poetry night. Tarek Samara, with the precision of a quantum physicist and the tenacity of someone trying to understand why the toaster is connected to the Wi-Fi, unravels the mysteries of whether ERP systems help information systems hold hands in harmonious integration—or rudely shove them into a digital disintegration divorce. Guided by a labyrinthine web of factors (which are undoubtedly as fickle as a hyperspace bypass), this book explores how these mischievous variables can nudge ERP systems to either play nice or wreak utter organizational havoc. It’s a deeply insightful dive into the tangled web of technology, logic and the occasional baffling tendency of information systems to self-destruct, all wrapped in the undeniable truth that sometimes, the answer really is 42.
Download PDF
2. Modern ERP: Select, Implement, and Use Today's Advanced Business Systems
2014 by Marianne Bradford
In a world where businesses cling desperately to the idea that software can solve all their problems (without, of course, creating several new ones), Modern ERP: Select, Implement and Use Today’s Advanced Business Systems serves as a much-needed guide through the perilous terrain of enterprise resource planning—a realm filled with buzzwords, baffling acronyms and the ever-present risk of accidentally deploying an update that erases everything except the company coffee machine settings. Now in its third edition and still blissfully free of vendor propaganda, Marianne Bradford fearlessly tackles the ever-mutating ERP ecosystem, now featuring cloud computing (which is just someone else’s computer), mobility (because offices have mysteriously discovered the existence of smartphones) and business analytics (which aims to make numbers do useful things instead of just sitting there looking smug). With added insights into ERP security, databases and supply chains (which, contrary to popular belief, do not involve actual chains), this book is a vital survival manual for students, managers and anyone who has ever stared at an ERP implementation plan and quietly wept.
Download PDF
3. Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp) the Great Gamble: An Executive’S Guide to Understanding an Erp Project
2013 by Ray Atkinson
In the grand and bewildering cosmos of business software, where vast sums of money vanish into ERP projects with the efficiency of a black hole swallowing a poorly planned budget, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) – The Great Gamble offers a lifeline to executives who have just been handed an ERP implementation plan and are wondering where it all went wrong. Ray Atkinson, armed with 35 years of experience and what must surely be an iron constitution, peels back the layers of jargon, false optimism and vendor promises made under the influence of strong coffee to reveal the true nature of ERP projects: an elaborate, high-stakes gamble where success is celebrated, failure is litigated and nobody quite remembers how they got there in the first place. Rather than drowning the reader in technical minutiae, this book takes a step back to explain why these projects so often go spectacularly sideways and more importantly, how to avoid becoming the next cautionary tale whispered fearfully in corporate boardrooms. Written in refreshingly human language, it is an essential guide for executives, managers and anyone who has ever wondered why “seamless integration” always seems to involve six months of chaos and an emergency budget review.
Download PDF
4. Enterprise Resource Planning : A Managerial & Technical Perspective
2007 by S. Parthasarthy
In a universe where managers juggle spreadsheets with the agility of caffeine-fueled octopuses and competition moves faster than an overzealous intern on their first day, *Enterprise Resource Planning: A Managerial & Technical Perspective* attempts the Herculean task of making sense of ERP—an entity as mystifying as the fine print on an intergalactic tax form. S. Parthasarthy bravely navigates this labyrinth, revealing ERP as not just a piece of software but a vast, all-encompassing entity that somehow manages to align corporate mission statements, deeply held beliefs, operating styles and the peculiar habits of those humans who insist on pressing buttons labeled *Do Not Touch.* This book is the missing link between the managerial types who want things to "just work" and the technical wizards who insist that "just work" requires six months of reconfiguration and a sacrificial printer. Packed with case studies and insights, it demystifies ERP with all the grace of an improbability drive attempting to parallel park.
Download PDF
5. ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, Second Edition
2003 by Carol A Ptak, Eli Schragenheim
In the vast and perplexing world of supply chains—where things are ordered, lost, reordered, misdelivered, found and then mysteriously go out of stock just when you need them—ERP: Tools, Techniques and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain bravely attempts to impose some kind of order on the chaos. Now in its second edition and more updated than the average company’s actual ERP system, Carol A. Ptak and Eli Schragenheim present a guide for business managers who need to plan, manage and execute things without resorting to sacrificial offerings to the gods of inventory. Packed with real-world examples (because theoretical ones tend to be suspiciously well-behaved), this book explains how ERP tools can, in theory, help supply chains run smoothly—assuming, of course, that nobody presses the wrong button, updates the wrong setting, or attempts to "fix" things by rebooting the entire system. Written in a refreshingly clear manner, this book is an indispensable survival guide for anyone who has ever tried to make sense of ERP without accidentally deleting half the warehouse.
Download PDF
How to download PDF:
1. Install Google Books Downloader
2. Enter Book ID to the search box and press Enter
3. Click "Download Book" icon and select PDF*
* - note that for yellow books only preview pages are downloaded
