The company has no ES and presently has no plans to install one. It wants to implement ERP, perhaps using a legacy system or possibly by acquiring low-cost software to support the core ERP functions of demand management, master scheduling, Material Requirements Planning, and so on.
We’ll look at each one of these conditions individually and then,towards the end of this chapter, we’ll discuss the issue of “bolt-ons.” This is software from outside the ES, which performs certain specific
functions.