"This book describes ERP, a system for effectively planning and managing all the resources of an enterprise, from the perspective of the business manager. It furnishes a step-by-step roadmap with many real-life examples for successful selection, implementation, and utilization of Enterprise Resource Planning for improved overall competitiveness. Once the reader gains an understanding of the concepts of ERP, he or she can then practice their implementation in "virtual reality" with the accompanying disk that contains a computerized simulation."--BOOK JACKET.