Applicability of enterprise resource planning at ready-made clothes industry and enformasyon destek sistemi (EDS) software project application

At the simplest expression, ERP system is a technique which integrates all of the resources ofthe firm. The resources fall into three groups: human resources, financial resources, andphysical resources. ERP is a management system which has an excellent planning andscheduling technique causing increase in customer satisfaction, inventory turns, and decreasein material costs. Implementing ERP systems in businesses is possible under the packageswhich are developed by software vendors. When these packages are succesfully implemented,the results will be perfect. Howewer, there are many unsuccesful results in the practices. Oneof the major reasons that the ERP system has not been succesfully implemented is theinappropriate use of an implementation strategy.Advanced information technologies became absolutely necessary part of the companies intoday?s competition and velocity environment. The emergence of new informationtechnologies is very speedy. One of the advanced information technologies that emerged inthe past decade is ERP system. ERP is a total integrated, computerized business managementsystem that covers every functional area of the organization enabling it to derive the mostcompetitive advantage. There are a lot of factors to implement ERP system in the companies.Companies that implement ERP system because of these factors can have some problems inthe implementation stages. But, with an effective planning and management, companies canprovide many advantages from the ERP implementations.Keywords: Apparel, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), MRP, MRP II, ERPImplementation