Talk:Enterprise resource planning/Archives/2017

Confusion between discipline and information technology!
Enterprise resource planning is the discipline of managing supply chain, procurement, inventory, finance, projects, human resources... discipline which is applied by production teams and can be supported by one or several information technologies such as an ERP System (e.g. SAP). This is the same thing as project management (the discipline) vs project management system (e.g. ProjectLink or 3DEXPERIENCE Program Management). See Project management for improvement ideas! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.217.6.86 (talk) 18:18, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes there is confusion
but I don't see how practically the two can be unravelled, the discipline and the software system supporting it are inter-dependent and symbiotic. It's impossible to say which came first. That being said, if the term "Postmodern ERP" has achieved a level of use within the industry beyond simply being in a Gartner report, then it deserves to be included here. We are at a cross-roads of ERP systems and the companies that implement them. Historical ERP has grown organically, module by module, and organizations must largely fit to the ERP. Only organizations with significant resources could fit the ERP to their business. Postmodern ERP however represents a new generation of ERP systems that are both simple and highly flexible. Now organizations of even modest means can adapt the ERP to their needs, essentially modelling their business using the ERP, which turns the original paradigm upside down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dalerscott (talk • contribs) 17:27, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

PLM would not be seen as a 'module' of ERP
Graphic "Diagram showing some typical ERP modules" is a bit misleading, as PLM is an entire system with it's own large array of modules. PLM is not simply a module of ERP to PLM professionals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.240.190.2 (talk) 23:42, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Turtles all the way down
PLM is a module of ERP in much the same way that Quality can be a module of ERP. Both represent significant domains of knowledge, processes and best practises, and can approach an ERP in complexity. But from the perspective of an ERP, usually represented as the one system to rule the rest, yeah, PLM is a module. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dalerscott (talk • contribs) 16:35, 21 December 2017 (UTC)