This essay will discuss Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) implementation, specifically in the factors which can leads that ERP implementation to successful and unsuccessful ERP implementation. The difficulties in the ERP implementation had made the ERP become major research when talking about ERP. In what are the key factors that can result in successful and unsuccessful of ERP implementation. By collected all the necessary resources we are be able to discuss more about ERP and the key factors in that in order to make the final conclusion for ERP. In the end the successful and unsuccessful are affected by several factors that explain in this essay. INTRODUCTION The development of the people these days had an affect in the development in the business world as well. People try to find the systems which can be use to help them in running the business for example to reduce the cost in running the business. Since 1950s the computer system had been use to cost. At the moment, Enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems had become important systems in the modern business world. The meaning of ERP itself is an integrated software package composed by a set of standard functional modules (production, sales, human resources, finance, etc.) developed or integrated by the vendor that can be adapted to the specific needs of each customer (Esteves et al. 2000). ERP is a business system that joins all the aspects in the business world such as planning, manufacturing, sales and marketing, projects. The ERP has become more popular in the software which used to help the business actives including order tracking, customer service, finance, inventory control and human resources. The ERP databases contain all the data about the business whi... ... middle of paper ... ...l for enterprise resource planning implementation¡±, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Information Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 273-97. Roberts, H.J. and Barrar, P.R.N. (1992), ¡°MRPII implementation: key factors for success¡±, Computer IntegratedManufacturing Systems, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 31-8. Rosario, J.G. (2000), ¡°On the leading edge: critical success factors in ERP implementation projects¡±, BusinessWorld, Philippines. Ross J.W. (1999), ¡°Surprising facts about implementing ERP¡±, IT Pro, Vol. July/August 1999. Sam D. (2000), ¡°ERP system flushes bottleneck at Bradley Corp.¡±, Midrange Systems, 18 October, Vol. 12 i15 p36. Stair, R.M., Reynolds, G.W., Gelinas, J.U. Jr., Sutton, S.G., Hunton, J.E., Albright, S.C., Winston, W.L. & Zappe, C. (2007) Accounting Information Systems and Financial Modelling, Thomson, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
In order to retain its leadership position and continuing growing in the ceramics machinery industry, Keda refocused itself using a five year computerization plan, including the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Embarking on an ERP initiative was the correct issue for the organization to focus on considering the positive outcomes resulting from implementing SAP’s system.
ERP stands for Enterprise Resources Planning. ERP is a term used for software that controls whole organizations different departments. SAP is the world leader in ERP systems followed by Oracle.
ERP is a huge resource managing tool used by companies today. Some systems preform general ledger, accounting and order management for the company. ERP systems are a great asset and greatly improve a company, so a company should defiantly look into implementing ERP systems! However, Gartner estimates that 75% of all ERP projects fail. Why is there so much of a high failure rate? This paper will take an in depth look at reasons to why ERP systems fail.
To align the ERP with an E-enterprise, organisations must take into account critical success factors including business processes, people, technology and the organisation (Sharma, Lavania, & Gupta, 2011). For example, an E-enterprise will enhance the existing value chain as it can cross company borders, to allow effective collaboration and flow of information. With the introduction of an E-enterprise, the lines between technology and business begin to blur, for this reason, people who are specifically trained with a technical or business background, need to be cross trained in other areas. Project management plays a vital role in an E-enterprise, due to projects having very short life cycles. This is caused by forever changing technology, at a very rapid pace which can cause the organisation and the implemented ERP to become distant and not aligned (Sharma, Lavania, & Gupta,
An ERP Story : Background (A) and An ERP Story : Choosing a Project Leader (B)
This paper addresses the issues being faced by the ERP Systems, how the problem was approached and led the search for answers to the achievement of the objectives. The subsequent are the queries that have been addressed in this research.
(2004). Definition and Analysis of Critical Success Factors for ERP Implementation Projects (Doctoral thesis). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.
With development of the information system management, ERP system has been familiar with more and more people. What is the ERP? ERP is short for Enterprise resource planning; generally speaking, it is an Integrated Information System. From the definition of Wikipedia, ERP is business management software—usually a suite of integrated applications, that a company can use to store and manage data from every stage of business, usually it includes several components, such as forecast and planning, manufacturing, marketing and sales, inventory management, etc. This paper gives you a whole idea of what ERP system is, with states its benefits and importance, and also, using Colgate as an example, to analyst its SAP system.
Controversial relationships between the client and implementation partner stop from the fact that the client feels that the implemented ERP solution does not cater to their business needs depending on the documented scope, and the end users cannot perform all these tasks that were implemented within the legacy systems without difficulty
In order to be more productive and accurate, most of the companies depend on use of technology, with the help of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. (Olsen, and Saetre, 2007).
ERP (enterprise resource planning) is an interactive system which compiles various data in order to help optimize the resources. In terms of implementing between production and sale, SAP also helps all of the department collaborate each other in favor of controlling and tracking of resources . There are two types of data usages: decentralized and centralized. They normally structuralize data at central location shared with various departments. From old system using the decentralized system, those effects have pointed out the drawbacks which are disparate information generated individually over time, integrating the information becomes more time and money consuming. The updating data are made inconsistently or made mistakes in data entries. As a consequence, all above reason can lead to lack of timely information causing the reluctance for customer services as well as the total revenue and reputation. Following this position, according to Fawzy S and Mohamed AY 1998, Dr Henning emphasizes about SAP benefit which all of the sections can access to the all resources’ data rather than relying on separating systems for each department or functional area which possibly may not interface with each other. Therefore, all data will be recorded correctly and effectively and particularly in sale, finance, material management and human management functions. Apparently, There is top 5 software to strive the efficiency of management ‘s system beside of SAP such as Epicor, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics and Oracle which has tied up around more than 50% of market share and SAP also has the highest proportion in market at roughly 24% ( Panorama, 2012 )
ERP’s major strength in manufacturing is day to day controlling your business. Once it is implemented in the enterprise it will become the HEART of the manufacturing process and the Wheels of the distribution channel and the BRAIN of the planning activities.
The economic globalization has formulated new conditions in the market place. These conditions have given rise to instability and intensive competition in the business environment. There are various factors with respect to which competition in the market has an incremental growth and these factors include price, quality and selection, service and promptness of delivery. The competition has intensified more by the increasing cooperation between various countries world-wide, removal of the barriers and technological innovations. The need for organizational transformations has resulted from these changes, which further leads to the change of the entire processes and organization climate and organization structure. Such a change is characterised by an emerging Information technology, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). ERP system are responsible for integrating the business processes of an organization, and helps them to obtain the competitive advantages which may include enhancing productivity, customer demands satisfaction, increasing the rapid response capabilities of the customers, reduction of the cycle time, enhancing flow efficiency, and rapid generation of financial information [2]. ERP systems help in enabling the managers to control the whole business and accelerate decision making. In what way, does the top management find the need of ERP implementation and whether the top management takes ERP implementation as simple automation of the existing system or something else are the major issues with regard to ERP implementation. The implementation of ERP is not simply considered the automation of existing business processes, as it requires various changes in these business processes of the enterprise to implement the best practices possible [4]. But there are some challenges that ERP implementations have to face such as the ERP system implentations are very complex in nature, moreover, they incur very high costs and problems during and post implementation are not rare in ERPs. So, these issues force a number of organizations in the industry to reconsider their new plans in relation to this enterprise system and ERP implementation. In ERP implementation, the systems are developed and designed so that they can be used to support the organization’s business processes, thus ERP implementation and business process should have close connections.
Robert Jacobs, F., & Ted'Weston, F. (2007). Enterprise resource planning (ERP)--A brief history. Journal of Operations Management, 25(2), 357-363.
Enterprise is a group of people who have a common goal which they try to achieve through recourses e.g. people, money, energy, materials, space, time, etc. ERP covers techniques and concepts employed for the integrated management of business as a whole. The ERP packages are a target of the manufacturing industry. ERP software is designed to model and automate many of the basic processes of a company. It is a mirror image the major business processes of an organization. (Enterprise Resource Planning by Alexis Leon.)