Improving Financial Management Through Enterprise Resource Planning

摘要

Commercial companies have been implementing Enterprise Resource Planning packages since the mid-90's with varying degrees of success or failure. The military is now starting to implement ERP packages, applying commercially available software solutions that automate and integrate their business processes. Budgeters and comptrollers have a role in the ERP implementation and may greatly improve their own practices in the process. This paper will provide an ERP overview, some ERP successes, and the status of the ERP prototypes in the Navy. Then the paper will attempt to categorize some of the problems with today's financial processes that can be improved through the use of ERP. ERP can improve the financial processes of the Navy and DOD in virtually every area. There is potential for improvement in financial execution, budgeting, programming and implementing financial measures of effectiveness.