TY - JOUR AB - This paper presents the results of a panel of experts, made up of academics in the field of operations and supply chain management, enterprise requirement planning software developers, and end‐users, whose work has aimed at defining the main features that characterize an enterprise modeller for the fashion industry. The characteristics required by the enterprise requirement planning enterprise modeller have been identified, with specific attention to the production planning and control module. Because of the peculiarities of this line of business, it is widely recognized that both vendors and buyers would benefit from such a tool. For the formers, the availability of a pre‐customized reference model would represent a competitive advantage in the marketplace, for the latter, on the other hand, it would enhance the effectiveness, the efficiency and the likelihood of success of the enterprise requirement planning implementation project. VL - 17 IS - 3 SN - 1741-0398 DO - 10.1108/17410390410531434 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/17410390410531434 AU - Bertolini Massimo AU - Bevilacqua Maurizio AU - Bottani Eleonora AU - Rizzi Antonio PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Requirements of an ERP enterprise modeller for optimally managing the fashion industry supply chain T2 - Journal of Enterprise Information Management PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 180 EP - 190 Y2 - 2024/04/20 ER -