SYSE.1:5.2 - Manufacturer and ERP vendor

A manufacturer opens a “new ERP” project because production plans repeatedly fail. The manufacturer compares the software product, the planning organization, a deployed planning System containing people, software, data, and decision interfaces, and the wider production-control System. It selects the intended deployed planning System because the current project changes production-planning use and records data quality as the main assumption.

The vendor’s product project can separately select the ERP software product. “Software is always the project system-of-interest” and “software is never the project system-of-interest” both erase the project-specific decision. The two accounts preserve the shared software and the different uses.