Advantages And Disadvantages Of ERP Software

Sytox Systems is an enterprise company that uses Cloud Computing as its main market front to obtain market share and equity value. In this company it has many different product offerings in virtualization software such as desktop and client applications to allow users to work from any location. This can be at home, at their child’s school, and even at a doctor’s office. It also has multiple hardware appliances which it creates and this manufacturing environment uses many different tools to access its on-time shipment details, return material authorization information, and

Enterprise Resource Programming, or similar systems, have become a major part of a company’s tool set. Because of the fast pace of today’s society, the business environment has to struggle continuously in order to keep up. ERP enables companies to accomplish that by creating a “one stop shop” for all of the company’s vital information. This gives a business the ability to streamline the process of getting the item in question from the factory to the customer as quickly as possible.

Successful implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is not impossible in real life but for that it must be developed through a proper planning and implementation. ERP are designed to upgrading an organization’s ability to generate more timely and accurate information for its supply chain. Organization must be ready for reengineered before the success of productivity can be realised. Most of the companies have faced heavy problems while trying to implement ERP systems and have led to serious problems.

Tektronix implemented ERP in stages. The organization adopted staged approach because of the following reasons:

They set a Financial Shared Service which operated their accounting and financial reporting functions for around 50 business units. It processes over 200,000 invoices per annum for all their suppliers. They manage the payroll for 20,000 employees. When the Financial Shared Service progresses they decided that they wanted to move onto one Enterprise Resource Planning software package. So they chose to use SAP (Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing).

There can be many types of competitive advantages including the firm's cost structure, product offerings, distribution network and customer support. Competitive advantages give a company an edge over its rivals and an ability to generate greater value for the firm and its shareholders. The more sustainable the competitive advantage, the more difficult it is for competitors to neutralize the advantage.

Implementing the ERP system was an essential changing process for Omantel to develop. ERP is a complex system, so the difficulties and limitations are unavoidable. Communication, training and risk management are some of the main obstacles that any organizations that use ERP should put into considerations. Although there are several difficulties, the result of Omantel has been quite positive. Most of Omantel’s employees believe that the new system has made a positive change in their work (Maguire, S., Ojiako, U. & Said, A., 2010). Because of the limitation of available information of Omantel’s implementation result, Omantel ERP system is considered as partly

ERP ensures the fundamental of business applications to be automated and reduce the cost and complexity of the business models which leads to a successful business (She & Thuraisingham, 2007). According to Berchet and Habchi (2005), Davenport (1998), among the important modules for ERP system are marketing, sales and distribution, enterprise solution, production planning, quality management, assets accounting, materials management, cost control, human resources, project management, financials , and plant maintenance. It potentially allows company to manage business better with great benefits of improved process flow and decision

This choice is a comprehensive ERP integration plan, proved to be most costly and time-consuming plan. This plan also contribute to

The solution works out of the box with Oracle Applications and is interfaced easily to other ERP or legacy systems

Abstract-ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. ERP is a business concept for automation and planning. In today’s fast changing scenario ERP becomes one of the most demanding and successful concept in business world. Today the concept of ERP is being used by almost every segment of the business and industry worldwide. It is most sought after concept in management now. Basically it is a solution to all management processes and problems. It includes solutions for all the domains that can think of. It can be customized or better to say tailor made according to need and requirement. Like every other business and management solutions it has a history and life cycle. It is being successfully used by some major vendors worldwide and some local vendors too. It is well implemented by the organizations like SAP and Oracle. These IT giants capture a large share of market. But still the major portion is left and which is pointed out by small local ERP solution providers with their own version of ERP. Now capturing the unclaimed market is the new war. Even organizations like Microsoft and SAP are also offering their new version of ERP software for SME’s (Small Medium Enterprise).

Organizations try consistently to incorporate newer technology into their business to increase efficiency, reduce cost, support growth and generally improve how the company does business. A business can choose to upgrade existing software, build a custom application or purchase a new system that will meet needs based on defined requirements.

To realize the promise of Big Software, companies need an entire new way of thinking. Where applications were once simple to manage and deploy with a couple of solutions across a couple of machines; companies must now roll out many applications, components, and integration points spread across tens of thousands of on-premise and hosted physical and virtual machines. Enterprises are learning they cannot address the needs of their businesses and customers unless they have a sense of the capabilities they must build, manage, and deliver. In other words, companies must have the right mix of products, services, and tools to match the requirements of the business. However, many IT departments are undertaking these challenges with the approaches, processes, and tools developed over a decade ago.

In today’s world companies expanding market. This globalization is important factor in bringing suppliers, partners and customers together for supplying product globally. In this case study we will see how to implement an ERP system. This ERP implementation may be successful or unsuccessful but most of the times the reason behind failure will be due to bad management involved during implementation of ERP package. The management involved in implementation part should have proper management skills. In this case study we will examine key dimensions of implementing ERP system in an organization successfully. In this case study we will see about Rolls-Royce Company implementing an ERP package named SAP R/3 successfully. This case study paper deals with the issues involved in implementation of ERP and concentrates mainly on technical, cultural and business issues involved in implementation and also helps in evaluating project benefits.

In present era, Information systems existence is unavoidable in all working environment. Information system is globally recognized & widely accepted as a basic necessity for running successful business. Kim et.al (2007), Information Technology plays an important business tool in modern era to attain competitive advantage for the organization as well as improving employee’s efficiency and productivity. Enterprise Resource Planning system shortly known as ERP system is one of the primary information systems used in various industries to run their business operations. ERP attained various industry attentions due to its cross functional integration, business process reengineering, real time reporting and many other useful functionalities and capabilities. Initially, ERP system was predominantly implemented in large enterprises due to its high implementation cost and implementation time consuming. For the past few decades, SME’s businesses environment are rapidly changing in order to stay more competitive in fast paced competitive market. Organizations want to upgrade their business communications, business and employee capabilities and business process automation to latest technologies. During the last few decades, large number of small & medium size enterprises started implementing ERP systems to stay competitive in global market. Amoako (2007) and Kemp et al (2008) explains the usage of ERP system in different business divisions. From