WHITE PAPER: Leveraging ERP for Supply Chain Execution

A Single Data Model Approach

Companies considering supply chain execution systems to integrate shop floor radio-frequency (RF) scanners and barcoding within their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems face a fundamental decision: which data model will serve as the primary system of record for manufacturing and distribution transactions? Regardless of the terminology used or marketing hype, supply chain execution systems must store their data to and drive their business processes from a primary database. To do this, there are only two options