Title :
Early MRP Systems at Royal Philips Electronics in the 1960s and 1970s
Author_Institution :
History of Technol. Found., Delft
Abstract :
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands became an early adopter of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in the early 1980s. In the 1960s, Philips was poised to develop its own line of ERP solutions, but in 1979/1980, it stopped its own development and transitioned to purchased integrated standard packages from IBM. Nevertheless, early adopters such as Philips might have contributed to the start of the ERP industry.
Keywords :
DP industry; enterprise resource planning; Royal Philips Electronics; early MRP systems; enterprise resource planning systems; integrated standard packages; Application software; Companies; Computer applications; Computer industry; Consumer electronics; Enterprise resource planning; History; Industrial relations; Manufacturing industries; Materials requirements planning;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2009.23
