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Implementation of Open Source ERP in Grace Group of Colleges Final Project Proposal

BS (CS) VIII Session (2005 -2009)

Submitted By: Ambreen Amna Asifa Abdul Majeed Saba Ahmad

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Adviser Name: Miss Mariam Nosheen Submission Date: 3nd March 2009 Adviser’s signature:

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

Lahore College for Women University, Lahore

Executive summary An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is an information backbone and reaches into all areas of the business and value-chain. It is a set of applications with a structured approach to optimizing an organization’s internal and external value chain. Grace Group is an organization which have geographically dispersed data in multiple cities (appropriate 10) and they want such an application which is low-cost, efficient, reliable for the proper technical management of different Administrator and Financial issues which in their different branches on daily basis.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………01 2. PURPOSE …………………………………………………………………01 3. SCOPE …………………………………………………………………….01 4. PROBLEM STATEMENT………………………………………………...02 5. PROPOSED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE………………………………..02 6. HISTORY/BACKGROUND ……………………………………………...03 7. LITERATURE REVIEW ………………………………………………….05 8. PROPOSED PROJECT METHODOLOGY ………………………………06 9. TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES/ SW-HW …………………………………..07 10. WORK PLAN………………………………………………………………07 11. DELIVERABLES…………………………………………………………. 07 12. REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………08

LIST OF FIGURES 1. PURPOSED SYETEM ARCHITECTURE …………………………………02 2. ERP EVOLUTION…………………………………………………………..04 3. PROJECT METHODOLOGY ………………………………………………06

LIST OF TABLES 1. COMPARISION…………………………………………………………….05

ABBREVIATIONS

Term APS CRM ERP GGC GUI OS-ERP SCM

Description Advanced Planning and Scheduling Customer Relationship Management Enterprise Resource Planning Grace Group of Colleges Graphical user interface Open Source ERP Supply Chain Management