Formalising ERP Selection Criteria Xavier Burgués Illa Univ. Politècnica Catalunya Edifici C6 Campus Nord Jordi Girona Salgado 1- 3 08034 Barcelona. Spain +34 934 017 006 diafebus@lsi.upc.es Abstract We present a proposal for selecting ERP products from a formal description of their relevant characteristics. The work is based on a previous and successful collaboration with a midsize company in the field of software package selection. An ERP was selected following a systematic methodology called
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Case Development Report for Celanese AG Group Assignment Contents Contents 3 Introduction 4 Industry Understanding – Michel Porter’s five forces Model 4 Value Chain Analysis 6 How important is Celanese’s centralized enterprise system to its business strategy? Why? What is its business value to the company?.....................................................................9 How successful was Celanese in meeting these challenges? What problems did it solve? How? Which problems
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Analyzing SAP ERP ’s success in TISCO The critical success factors of ERP systems mainly include proper implementation and usage. Beside this there are several other factors that decide the regular functioning of ERP in organizations. While many organizations have not incurred the necessary benefit in terms of money and other measures there are lots who have witnessed multiple profits. Studying them will help in understanding the critical success factors for ERP implementation. They will help
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planning (ERP) systems‚ focusing on the following questions. • • • • Why investigate ERP systems? How does ERP create value? What is the purpose and scope of this book? What is the outline of this book? Why Investigate Enterprise Resource Planning Systems? Enterprise resource planning systems are a corporate marvel‚ with a huge impact on both the business and information technology worlds‚ including each of the following dimensions: • • • • • • • • • • • • ERP affects
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accounting‚ etc.) that entered the data. ERP facilitates information flow between all business functions‚ and manages connections to outside stakeholders (Bidgoli‚ H. 2004). In 1990‚ Gartner Group first used acronym ERP as an extension of material requirements planning (Group G. 1990). Then‚ ERP systems experienced a rapid growth and have been widely used all over the world. Many business companies found major benefits ERP systems can bring to them. By implementing ERP systems‚ it significantly improves
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in developing a competitive strategy. The concept was first introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 book “Competitive Advantage.” A value chain is a set of activities that an organization carries out to create value for its customers. Porter proposed a general-purpose value chain in which he felt it was important for companies to examine all of their activities and see how they’re connected. According to Porter‚ going through the chain of organization activities will add more value to the product
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failure factors for the first NIKE-i2 ERP-SCM implementation? All ERP implementations have risks associated that can lead to failure situations. The complexity of ERP systems together with demanding business environment‚ represent big challenges for companies when implementing an ERP. In the case of Nike‚ the situation is even more challenging because of the worldwide ERP deployment‚ and the large and complex scope of the project. Inevitably‚ and like all ERP implementations‚ Nike-i2’s project faced
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of ERP case 1. Enterprise resource planning software‚ attempts to integrate all departments and functions across a company onto a single computer system that can serve all those departments’ particular needs. ERP combines all computer system‚ which optimized for the particular ways that the department does their work into a single‚ integrated software program that runs off a single database so that the various departments can more easily share information and communicate with each other. ERP vanquishes
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Table of Contents Introduction Factors Contributing to Failure ERP Success Stories Conclusion References Introduction What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)? “Enterprise Resource Planning” is a term originally coined in 1990 by The Gartner Group to describe the next generation of MRP II software. The purpose was to integrate all facets of the business enterprise under one suite of software applications. The definition of ERP would be broadened to include almost any type of large integrated
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The project’s main characteristics and challenges identified by Jean Roberge are: Identify functionalities for all of ABS Business Systems and integrate for real time data exchange. Simplify system maintenance‚ achieving better management of ABS’ IT potential. With more and more ensuing “global businesses” ABS wants the conversion to improve their information exchanges to set them up as strong “global” contenders. Roberge also noted that “harmonization”‚ and consolidation of the three companies
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