Dynamic alignment of ERP systems and their documentations - An approach for documentation quality improvement

Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3248-3260

  Knackstedt, Ralf ^a   Winkelmann, Axel ^a   Becker, Jörg ^a  

^a ERCIS ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Configuration; Documentation; Erp; Modeling; Variant management

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION; DESIGN SCIENCE; DYNAMIC ALIGNMENT; ERP SYSTEM; INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION; STANDARD SOFTWARE;

ALIGNMENT; DESIGN; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; MODELS; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870310062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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