What is the difference between PHAROS and known ERP systems?
ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning are the large integrated information systems that serve all departments within an enterprise. An ERP system includes software for manufacturing, order entry, accounts receivable and payable, general ledger, purchasing, warehousing, logistics, human resources, e-commerce, employee, etc. Some of the modules in such systems are aimed at providing support to management in enterprise performance monitoring. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry with major known systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Baan and J.D. Edwards, ERP implies the use of packaged software. Such systems are usually very costly in purchase coming up to hundreds thousands of Euro and applicable for relatively large and well established enterprises. However the major costs and other implementation problems are known later after the introduction. Why? Because the complete restructuring of business processes is required for the whole enterprise and its branches. The total final c
