ERP software and applications have become basic requirement of almost every
organization in order to compete with each other and in time constraint. In
order to develop an efficient application, project planning and analysis play
very important role in better understanding of the problem domain and to
provide a risk free solution. There are many different approaches which
software developers used to develop the systems. These traditional approaches
have some drawbacks and constraints. Either these are ad-hoc basis or have some
fixed patterns and rules. We discussed all these techniques and suggest that
planning and analysis of ERP application during its development can be done by
applying more appropriate knowledge engineering commonKADS model. CommonKADS is
a structured approach, It comprises of different model suites. Thesis presents
that by using commonKADS model for project planning and analysis, real problem
domain and efficient solution can be identified. Also domain process is
identified. Tasks related to each process in the domain are identified.
Knowledge assets related to each task are identified. These features help in
defining real knowledge specification. In this way, ERP applications can be
made knowledge based. ERP systems were introduced to solve different
organizational problems and provide integrated structure. Although ERP packages
offer advantages to enterprises, they have not achieved many of their
anticipated benefits. Autonomous and heterogeneous applications co-exist in
companies with ERP systems and integration problem having not been addressed.
This thesis seeks to make some suggestions to this area by studying and
analyzing ERP problems, through mapping commonKADS methodology in a case study.
Thesis in start, presents an overview about ERP applications, Knowledge
Engineering and commonKADS methodology. In the end, thesis presents our
contributi...
