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To: Grantcw who wrote (24547)	5/11/2000 2:46:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

CW, I'm not the expert in ERP you apparently think I am. It's nice to know that I fooled atleast one person. :) I think PeopleSoft also offers the components you mentioned but I'm not sure. You're probably aware of Baan but that is a company in huge turmoil. I assume your company has done a thorough analysis of reasons to go the route of using ERP for all of the components instead of using ERP for some components and more robust products offered by the specialists for other components. If not, from what I read that is a vastly important decision that needs to be made. It's not as easily done as might appear on the surface. If your firm hasn't made that decision, you might need to contact the various specialist vendors that would connect to your ERP solution before making that big decision about whether or not to let one vendor attempt to meet all your needs. --Mike Buckley

To: Grantcw who wrote (24547)	5/13/2000 1:39:00 AM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

CW, You didn't ask my opinion, but I'm going to give it anyway. :o) There are some excellent reasons to go the individual components route, rather than implementing a whole ERP solution. 1. The individual components tend to be better, deeper products. 2. You can pick and choose the individual components that best match your needs. 3. Nowadays, the major vendors all have mature application interfaces that allow them to work well together, and to feed information accurately to the other systems that need the information. And, maybe most important: 4. You don't have to bet the ranch. I have heard of several companies that have run into real trouble when implementing ERP. (One was in Value Line. The company ended up with significant revenue shortfalls when they tried to implement SAP, and apparently lost control of their operations and in the process really pissed off some important customers. Best, JS