BPR Vs TQM, KAIZEN

Objectives
Understanding Business Process Re-engineering.
BPR and ERP.
Restructuring the business process to be ERP Friendly.
 BPR
(Business Process Re-Engineering
Definition :- Thorough rethinking of all business
 processes, job definitions, management systems, 
organizational structure, work flow, and underlying 
assumptions and beliefs. BPR's main objective is to
break away from old ways of working, and effect
radical (not incremental) redesign of processes to 
achieve dramatic improvements in critical areas (such
as cost, quality, service, and response time) through
the in-depth use of information technology. Also
called business process redesign.
 BPR
BPR is one of the fundamental steps undertaken prior
to ERP implementation.
It analyses and suggests the structural changes.
It helps in knowing how the organization should be
customized in order to become ERP friendly.
BPR becomes the first step in the process of ERP
implementation. Business process reengineering is
taken to conduct feasibility study and other
restructuring exercises. Nothing can be done to prevent
change. The best way to manage change is to adopt it. 
 BPR and ERP
It also suggests a series of steps that needs to be
executed, for ERP to find a place in the organization.
Companies expect ERP to function in such a way that
it coincides with the regular business process.
The companies either restructure the business process
itself or customize the ERP system so that it suits the
business process.