Gunasekaran A. (Ed.) Global Implications of Modern Enterprise Information Systems: Technologies and Applications

IGI Global, 2009. – 399 p. – ISBN: 978-1-605-66146-9.Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) such as the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), World Wide Web (WWW), E-Commerce (EC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) automate business processes and provide access to data from global operations. These systems have been used to integrate business processes along the supply chain. Technologies such as the Internet, WWW, EDI, and RFID have tremendous applications in the advanced enterprise information systems. In the 21st Century global market, companies heavily rely on global operations which obviously need an advanced enterprise information system such as ERP, EDI, EC, RFID, and WWW. Considering the importance of ERP in operations and competitiveness of companies in global markets, this edited book fo- cuses on the global implications of modern EIS on the physically distributed enterprise environments.
Effective communication along the supply chain is essential to provide a high level of customer service by delivering the right products at the right time, and in the quantity and price. In order to avoid any quality and delivery problems of materials, a real-time and shared enterprise information system such as ERP, EDI, WWW, EC, and RFID are important. The objective of EIS is to facilitate a smooth flow of information along the supply chain. Global supply chain operations, virtual enterprise, outsourcing, and physically distributed enterprise environments force companies to implement modern EIS such as ERP. This edited book presents the global implications of modern EIS and corresponding technologies and applications. It is our hope that both academic researchers and practitioners will benefit from the technology and application strategies, tactics and tools of EIS. An overview of the chapters is presented hereunder.