Erp Implementation for Steel Industry
ERP Implementation for Steel Industry | Critical Success Factors and SAP ASAP | |
Contents
Introduction 3 About SAP 3 Literature Review 4 ASAP Methodology 4 Critical Success Factors 5 Analyzing SAP ERP 's success in Steel Industry 8 Case Study: Tata Steel 8 Case Study: Jindal Stainless Ltd. 15 Conclusion 17 References 18
Introduction
In order to eliminate the problems associated with legacy systems, a new breed of software systems, called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), was created. These systems provide a single source of data with designed integration between different functional modules (for example, Accounting, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Production planning, etc.). These ERP systems are customized using the table-driven customization method, which provide a common set of data source to the whole organization. Due to table settings instead of old-fashioned hard-coded program logic, new and changed business requirements are rapidly implemented and tested in the system. There are various ERP products available today for example from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Salesforce.com, Baan, Microsoft, and HP to name a few.
With hundreds of companies implementing the ERP systems to make their business more efficient only few are very successful in implementing them. According to a survey done by Gartner only 60% of companies implementing ERP system claim they got expected benefits. In general an implementation is considered successful if it is done within budget and time with meeting all the preset implementation goals as measured by ROI, etc. Also, it is important to understand that delivering an ERP system on time and budget doesn’t make sense if no one in the company uses it.
In any ERP implementation lots of variables are involved like personnel (business side, technical side, support side, users), implementation partner (for e.g., IBM, Accenture, Cap Gemini, Delloite, Wipro, independent
Contents
Introduction 3 About SAP 3 Literature Review 4 ASAP Methodology 4 Critical Success Factors 5 Analyzing SAP ERP 's success in Steel Industry 8 Case Study: Tata Steel 8 Case Study: Jindal Stainless Ltd. 15 Conclusion 17 References 18
Introduction
In order to eliminate the problems associated with legacy systems, a new breed of software systems, called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), was created. These systems provide a single source of data with designed integration between different functional modules (for example, Accounting, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Production planning, etc.). These ERP systems are customized using the table-driven customization method, which provide a common set of data source to the whole organization. Due to table settings instead of old-fashioned hard-coded program logic, new and changed business requirements are rapidly implemented and tested in the system. There are various ERP products available today for example from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Salesforce.com, Baan, Microsoft, and HP to name a few.
With hundreds of companies implementing the ERP systems to make their business more efficient only few are very successful in implementing them. According to a survey done by Gartner only 60% of companies implementing ERP system claim they got expected benefits. In general an implementation is considered successful if it is done within budget and time with meeting all the preset implementation goals as measured by ROI, etc. Also, it is important to understand that delivering an ERP system on time and budget doesn’t make sense if no one in the company uses it.
In any ERP implementation lots of variables are involved like personnel (business side, technical side, support side, users), implementation partner (for e.g., IBM, Accenture, Cap Gemini, Delloite, Wipro, independent
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