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* Human resource management= the management function focused on maximizing the effectiveness of the workforce by recruiting world-class talent, promoting career development and determining workforce strategies to boost organizational effectiveness

After studying how the logistics industry benefited from using Enterprise Resource Planning system, SAP software, we found the following.

Equity is a branch of law, founded in justice and fair dealing, which seeks to supply a remedy when no adequate remedy at law is available.

An advantage to using NetSuite’s CRM and ERP modules is that it provides a wide variety of industry specific and vertical market solutions. A disadvantage is that it is hard to use for those who are new to it.

4.|In the Keynesian-cross model, both the price level and interest rate are held constant. A decrease in government spending reduces output by 1/(1 – MPC) times the change in government spending. In the IS-LM model, the reduction in output caused by the decrease in government spending is partially offset by an increase in investment (crowding in). In the IS-LM model, the decrease in government spending reduces income as in the Keynesian-cross model, but the reduction in income also reduces the demand for money, which in turn reduces the interest rate for a given money supply. The lower interest rate stimulates the off setting investment spending.|

The key success factors to its business line were maintaining a comprehensive product that was affordable to mid-sized companies and sufficiently differentiated from competitors’ products. The comprehensive aspect is demonstrated by the ability to be a completely one-stop suite for these companies with offerings across all functions, ERP, HRM, financial management, etc. The affordability aspect is primarily a byproduct of not requiring a significant upfront cost to the companies and a licensing model with shorter periods of subscription, the maximum of which is a year. Additionally,

SAP is known for their ability to innovate and release new software at a fast rate. SAP encountered some early losses when they would not be able to provide consulting services to their new clients. This focus on developing its R&D market led to problems with their ability to market and sell in global markets. It wasn’t until SAP went public on the Frankfurt stock exchange in 1988 that they were able to raise the cash to fund the global operations. SAP still faced problems with clients having to use external consultants to install and modify the software.

• Purchase these items in the one location - if possible – to ensure discounts.

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This case can be used to augment discussions of strategic analysis, specifically both internal and external environmental analysis (Chapters 2 & 3 in Dess, Lumpkin & Eisner); and strategic formulation, specifically business level strategy (Chapter 5), with an additional focus on strategic implementation, specifically entrepreneurial development (Chapters 12 & 13).

* Product can be associated with the lifestyles of so many different types of people, making it seem more versatile. Red Bull users range anywhere from cliff divers and race car drivers to students and party goers.

There are four types of goods movement types: goods receipt, goods issue, goods transfer and transfer posting. Goods issue process plays a key role in fulfillment process (indicating a goods shipment to a customer’s sales order) and production (issuing of raw or semi-finished materials to a production order) and is triggered by warehouse management. Goods issue results in decrease of inventory levels. The SAP ERP screen has the following views: item overview (that contains information about items in the outbound delivery document), Picking, Loading, Transport, Status

SAP Material Management (MM) is part of the logistics area and is often integrated with production and manufacturing facilities. SAP MM has features of handling procurement (purchasing) and inventory management of companies that engages in large volumes of goods purchasing. This will be performed by allowing them with hands-on control of below activities

The SAP ERP application helped increase standardization, lowered costly gratuitous of effort as well as enormous inventory levels and order cycle times. The SAP software, above all, was able to integrate a wide array of processes across different sections and regions of the company. Colgate therefore, gained a consolidated platform to respond to global customer requirements, analyze sourcing options and determine competitive strategies. Additionally, SAP was committed to partnering with Colgate’s customers to research and develop strong industry-specific solutions.

Many ERP providers exist. The most popular ERP vendors according to Lutovac & Manojlov (2012), Mehrjerdi (2010) and Olson, Chae, & Sheu (2013) are SAP and Oracle. Olson et al. (2013) also says that SAP and Oracle are seen as very large and very functional vendor products. However, Grandhi & Chugh (2012) adds that along with SAP and Oracle (and PeopleSoft) that Microsoft Dynamics, Epicor Software, Infor Global Solutions, Sage Group, Lawson Software, IFS and Open Bravo are the most popular ERP software vendors globally. Implementing the major proprietary ERP systems are however expensive thus Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) usually opt for using open source ERPs since SMEs typically have to address major difficulties due to the limited resources available for selecting and adopting a new software system (Aversano & Tortorella, 2013). According to Aversano & Tortorella (2013), Kiran (2013) and Mehrjerdi (2010) SAP and Oracle has the most market share; SAP having 24% and Oracle 18%. Thus, this paper discuses SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft since it has the most market share, and accompanying this, this paper also generally discusses Open Source ERPs.