E-Business Enabled ERP II Architecture

Abstract

The economy of the 21st century that succeeds the service and production economies has significant impact to business strategies. In this new economy, businesses compete as integral parts of a global value network fueled by the Internet and globalization. Critical to the competitive strategy are efficient real-time operations and the exploitation of relationship and knowledge assets across the value network. ERP II is a competitive strategy that extends a firm's value chain to a value network that includes a firm's customers, suppliers and channel partners in a collaborative environment. This paper describes a conceptual model for ERP II and discusses the role of e-business technologies in ERP II. It brings together the concepts of e-business, enterprise resource planning, value chain management, relationship management and knowledge management in an integrated architecture for ERP II. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]