Identifying Requirements for Future ERP systems

This paper discusses some of the theoretical challenges in identifying the business requirements for a future standard enterprise resource planning (ERP) package capable of supporting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and is part of the 3gERP project 1 . Identifying future business requirements is a task that has a high level of complexity and it is likely that the success of the requirements modeling has high impact on the success story for future ERPs. The paper discusses different ways of developing successful models of needed and future business requirements, and ends up with a model that aims at identifying and presenting business requirements.

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