Abstract

Enterprise wide automation has already transformed the relations among suppliers, purchasers, producers and customers. Conventional ERP helps only automate individual departments. It could neither inegrate its back-office benefits into the front-offcie nor establish consistent control of all business processes. Competitive pressures and globalization stresses the need for more effective, total enterprise solutions. The world class competition, modern business environment and the availability of the Internet are the premises which stress the need for ERP. The salient features of ERP II are presented in addition to describing some of the disruptive technologies which will help reengineer ERP systemts rapidly. The results of an international survey pertaining to the embedding of intelligence in the modern day ERP shows an evolutionary trend.