A Study on a Visualized Model for an Enterprise Resource Planning System

Abstract

This paper describes a trial methodology to analyze the business process of a small company by means of UML and to apply the result to an ERP system. Though ERP systems have been introduced to big business companies since 1990s, small businesses could not have introduced them because of their heavy specification and high price. Recently an open source ERP system for small businesses has been developed, and some venture companies which intend to make global businesses. However, ERP system requires various viewpoint of the businesses, compared with existing financial software packages, so modeling of business process will be necessary to introduce ERPs. Then business process modeling by UML is tried, and mapped to the open source ERP system.