Business Process Reengineering is a pre-requisite for going ahead with a powerful planning tool, ERP. An in depth BPR study has to be done before taking up ERP. Business Process Reengineering brings out deficiencies of the existing system and attempts to maximize productivity through restructuring and re-organizing the human resources as well as divisions and departments in the organization Business Process Engineering evolves the following Steps:

o Study the current system

o Design and develop new systems

o Define Process, organization structure and procedure

o Develop customize the software

o Train people o Implement new system The principle followed for BRP may be defined as USA principle(Understand, Simplify Automate) i.e., Understanding the existing practices, Simplifying the Processes and Automate the Process. Various tools used for this principle are charted below: o Understand Simplify Automate o Diagramming Eliminating EDI o Story-boarding Combining ERP o Brain storming Rearranging

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