In my early twenties I was adamant I was going to develop an Open Source ERP Platform, now working for SAP, I get to contribute to that dream, but probably will not get a chance to fulfill the base ambition 🙂 This flow chart always helped me understand the many aspects of ERP design, its processes and high tightly coupled each element and step was.
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