ERP and the changing role of IT in engineering consultancy firms

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 418-430

  Voordijk, Hans ^a   Stegwee, Robert ^a   Helmus, Rogier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Aureus Consultancy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communications technologies; Consultants; Manufacturing resource planning; Mechanical engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744476267     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150510609435     Document Type: Review

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