Gaining a competitive advantage through ERP Organizations today confront new markets, new competition and increasing customer expectations. Thus today's organizations have to constantly re-engineer their business practices and procedures to be more and more responsive to customers and competition. In the 1990's Information technology and Business Process re-engineering, used in conjunction with each other, have emerged as important tools which give organizations the leading edge. The efficiency of an enterprise depends on the quick flow …showed first 75 words of 2352 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2352 total…their business, where a customized application has to be rebuilt. What these applications do is capture data about historical activity, current operations and future plans, and organize that in a way people can use. When you look at the flexibility in big ERP systems, once implemented, they can look entirely different from one organization to another, a set of building blocks, and it's how you put those building blocks together that gives you an advantage.