[AISWorld] AMCIS 2011: Minitrack "Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning through Technology"

[Prof. Dr. Karl Kurbel]

CALL FOR PAPERS - 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

Minitrack "Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning through Technology"

 

August 4-7, 2011, Detroit, MI, USA

http://www.amcis2011.aisnet.org/

 

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have evolved from large
monolithic systems to more and more fragmented systems distributing just
about any aspect of a system: functions, processes, data, hardware and
infrastructure. This change has gone hand in hand with the incorporation of
more and more business functionality into ERP. Starting from material
requirements planning (MRP) and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II),
the financial and human resources functions as well as executive information
systems and eventually long-term strategic planning support for senior
management have been included.

 

These developments have made an ERP system "the" core information system of
an organization - and the technological backbone that other information
systems need to collaborate with. ERP related functionality such as supply
chain management (SCM ), customer relationship management (CRM) and supplier
relationship management (SRM) is either integrated, embedded or closely
coupled with an ERP system. 

Software, hardware and networking technology has enabled the increased
importance of ERP systems, but it also posed technological and managerial
challenges. In contrast to the early ERP monoliths, we nowadays have
distributed architectures - both conventional in-house architectures such as
client-server and service oriented architectures (SOA) as well as externally
hosted architectures used by application-service-providing (ASP) and
software-on-demand solutions. With the appearance of mobile commerce,
software-as-a-service (SaaS) approaches and cloud computing, additional
challenges have emerged. 

 

Technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) have opened up
new opportunities for an organization to act and react in real-time. RFID,
smart items and the "Internet of things" impose new requirements on ERP
systems, such as being capable of context-aware information processing.

For the new technologies to be successfully implemented, security issues
need to be resolved and a satisfactory level of trust in the technologies
has to be created. The major vendors' inability to generate significant
revenue from software-on-demand solutions indicates that businesses are not
ready yet to adopt out-of-house ERP solutions on a large-scale basis. The
hurdle is likely to be even higher when anonymous providers of
infrastructure and services come into the game, as is the case with cloud
computing. Organizations seem to be hesitant about having their
mission-critical business processes run somewhere out in a "cloud" and
maintaining their core business data in a nirvana. 

 

The rationale of this minitrack is exploration of new technologies that can
further enhance enterprise resource planning. We invite papers that pursue a
constructionist approach to information systems development, following an
engineering-like or design-science research style. Papers presenting the
development of prototypes as a proof of concept are welcome.
Technology-oriented papers should give consideration to the business value
of the proposed approaches or solutions.

 

Suggested Topics

 

.       Architectures for ERP and related business information systems

.       ERP systems based on service oriented architectures (SOA)

.       Software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for ERP and related areas

.       Orchestrating an ERP system from web services/enterprise services

.       ERP on demand for small and medium-size enterprises

.       Federated ERP systems, standardization and collaboration issues

.       ERP and cloud computing

.       Impact of virtualization and infrastructure-as-a-service on ERP

.       Integrating RFID solutions with ERP

.       Impact of the "Internet of things" on future ERP systems

.       Integrating legacy ERP systems with new components using
state-of-the-art technologies

.       Mobile ERP and related areas such as mobile SCM, mobile CRM and
mobile SRM 

.       Security issues and trust in new technologies for enterprise
resource planning

 

Paper Submissions

 

Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2011

 

Minitrack Co-chairs

 

Karl  E. Kurbel, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Grosse
Scharrnstr. 59, D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; e-mail:
kurbel.bi at europa-uni.de

 

Jorge C. Marx Gomez, Carl von Ossietzky University, Ammerlaender Heerstr.
114-118, D-26129 Oldenburg, Germany; e-mail:
jorge.marx.gomez at uni-oldenburg.de

 

 

 

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