o redesign their business processes in order to make them more efficient and effective. The third overall business benefit is that it supports global capabilities, including common processes that can be implemented across various countries as well as recognizing country-specific capabilities (Martin et al 182).
Perhaps the most significant benefit that accrues to companies that implement ERP systems is the focus that is put on supply chain management. Companies that implement ERP are able to monitor their supply chain performance better than companies lacking ERP, and this can provide a significant competitive advantage to companies. This focus comes from the greater transparency across the company as a whole, and the integration of supplier and customer input into the organization. For many companies, this emphasis on supply chain management is new; for other companies, ERP simply expands the ability of the company to concentrate on supply chain issues ("Production Engineering" 39).
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