The explosion of the Internet has affected many facets of work style in the manufacturing industry; yet all indications are that the revolution is still in its infancy. Manufacturing enterprises need to reshape their working model in order to sustain a competitive edge in this global manufacturing era. An Internet-enabled enterprise resource planning (ERP) is crucial to the continuous development of a manufacturing enterprise. Accordingly, in this paper, the authors propose an implementation model called Web-based Object-Oriented Model (WOOM) to implement an ERP system under a global perspective, which provides the framework, channel and the interface necessary to build a Web-based ERP system in a global business environment. The proposed model aims to provide a basis for the manufacturers to implement ERP in a systematic manner. By using advanced development techniques, a sophisticated, yet easy to use, building model that provides a total solution for all areas of a global ERP system has been implemented. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
