Systematic mapping study on integration of B2B customers in ERP
Islam, Fahad Rezwanul (2016)
Diplomityö
Islam, Fahad Rezwanul
2016
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201601263816
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201601263816
Tiivistelmä
Business-to-business terminology is relatively new as a business concept, so is the enterprise resource planning system in information technology. Research, implementation and integration of these two concept has been observed for last two decades in this paper. One of the major success point for growth in business-to-business environment is the availability of internal and partner data. Enterprise resource planning system facilitates storing, analysis of such data and enables different business process automation, forecasting and numerous value creating activity. In order to achieve such functionality for B2B customers, integrating them within ERP is very useful. This paper aims at understanding and suggesting such integration through investigating related documentation of similar integration scenarios, infrastructure, models and architectures. The investigation of the topic of this paper has been made using systematic mapping study of related papers and listing and suggesting necessary ingredients that enables such integration. Furthermore, this paper also suggests possibilities to overcome challenges integration experts might face during the integration phase and opens doors to future research scope in the related fields.