TY - CHAP

T1 - Integration of Environmental Management Information Systems and ERP systems using Integration Platforms

AU - Funk, Burkhardt

AU - Möller, Andreas

AU - Niemeyer, Peter

N1 - Conference code: 4

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - Since the 90s there have been a number of research projects attempting to model the environmental impact of products in ERP systems and so integrate environmental impacts into the operative decision-making and communication of companies with their customers. Such concepts have however so far failed to become comprehensively established in practice because of the high initial costs. In this paper we propose an approach and a reference architecture that allows an increasing level of automation when calculating environmental impact by using existing data from external databases. We concentrate on the operations of a company that would like to make environmental impact data available to its customers.

AB - Since the 90s there have been a number of research projects attempting to model the environmental impact of products in ERP systems and so integrate environmental impacts into the operative decision-making and communication of companies with their customers. Such concepts have however so far failed to become comprehensively established in practice because of the high initial costs. In this paper we propose an approach and a reference architecture that allows an increasing level of automation when calculating environmental impact by using existing data from external databases. We concentrate on the operations of a company that would like to make environmental impact data available to its customers.

KW - Business informatics

KW - Supply Chain

KW - Environmental Impact

KW - Information System

KW - Enterprise Resource Planning

KW - Enterprise Resource Planning System

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879668319&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-88351-7_4

DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-88351-7_4

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-3-540-88350-0

T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering (Subseries: Environmental Science)

SP - 53

EP - 63

BT - Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering - Proceedings of the 4th International ICSC Symposium, ITEE 2009

A2 - Athanasiadis, Ioannis N.

A2 - Mitkas, Pericles A.

A2 - Rizzoli, Andrea E.

A2 - Gómez, Jorge Marx

PB - Springer

CY - Berlin

T2 - 4th International ICSC Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering - 2009

Y2 - 28 May 2009 through 29 May 2009

ER -