Strategic Initiatives and Automated Decision Support with ERP System Environment

Abstract

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are presently offering some attractive features to incorporate some sorts of decision support capabilities. Still ERP system itself cannot make decisions but it keeps the data and records of organizational transactions in a very systematic and logical manner. The operational level managers and middle level managers for regular organizational transactions and analysis and reporting mainly use ERP systems. We argue that automated decision supports and strategic initiatives can be made with the present ERP system environment. This paper proposes a conceptual model of Automated Decision Support System with ERP (ADSSERP) system environment. The model can encompass some major decision making problems and strategic initiatives having mid term and long term decisional scopes based on a present ERP system for an enterprise without affecting the architecture of existing ERP system.