Erp Case Study

Enterprise resource Planning (ERP) is any integrated cross-functional software that reengineers manufacturing, distribution, finance, human resources and other basic business processes of a company to improve its efficiency, agility and profitability.1 On an initial view, an ERP system appears to be the cure for any company’s issues. The installation of such a system offers an organization the opportunity to re-structure their procedures, to coordinate branches’ systems in other geographic locations, unify information and inspire employees via granting them permission to company information. Now these chances exist at heightened costs financially. There are also implementation horrors and labor issues with which must be dealt with. A

ERP projects are most definitely expensive and risky, nevertheless despite these potential costs KEDA decided to embark on its ERP implementation project in hopes of obtaining a high return on investment. One of the factors that led to this decision was the fierce competition of global and local competitors. In an effort to retain its position within the industry and combat the threat of other businesses, KEDA needed to evolve. Specifically, through choosing a new ERP system, KETA hoped that this strategy would improve operations and become a productive advancement to the structure of the company. Since the Chinese government stopped their support and the MRP-II couldn’t manage the multiple system operations, they had to seek out a new alternative.

Today Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is extensively adopted by many organizations regardless of kind and size, mainly because it provides enterprise-wide view of information across all their business operations and help organizations achieve consistency across all their functional departments. The potential benefits of ERP system implementation include improved coordination across functional areas, increased efficiency, reduced operational costs, rapid access to information for decision making, managerial control and support for strategic planning.

Adoption of an ERP system enables an organization to eliminate dozens or even hundreds of separate systems and replace them with a single, integrated set of applications for the entire enterprise.

According to Keda’s case, without an ERP project, a company will run into many problems such as business performance, redundancy, ill formed decisions, losing potential financial gains, and not having a sturdy business process. Zhu says, “In managing the enterprise, our most important task is to provide the needed information for every decision maker every step of the way in the decision-making process.” One of the challenges faced by Keda was not being able to keep track of the many “unique, individual parts” Keda sells. This leads to not understanding the profit or loss from a sale, nor which part of the product or the production process contributed to that profit or loss. Furthermore, Keda’s resources were not being used to their full

In order to survive in this competitive business world, every business must produce or provide not only a better product or service, they must also provide better customer service, minimize their production costs and overhead costs, have a more efficient management system, a highly reliable infrastructure…the list is endless. Many of these can be achieved through a customized enterprise resource planning system (ERP). ERPs serve as “one comprehensive database to house all of [the company’s] corporate information” so that “when you enter new information in one place, the system automatically updates related information.” However, if these systems are not implemented correctly with the necessary change in management of people and technology

Making decision of what to select between “best of breed” and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are never easy. There are many controversy or chaos issues surrounds this thought and debate. Which one is better? What factors need to be considered? This paper will address the difference between “best of breed” and ERP System that needs to be considered, such as the definition, advantages and disadvantages each of them.

Enterprise resource planning enables firms to replace different departmental information systems and database silos with systems that collectively work as a single cross functional database. ERP systems are available for every key business function such as order processing, production control, HR, warehouse, marketing, finance and much more. By having a common technology and database platform throughout the firm, systems and processes from various departments can be integrated that achieve superiority in terms of enhanced cost, operational and productivity benefits. Implementing an ERP system requires careful planning to achieve the targeted benefits and minimize the risk of project failure.

The  focus  of  the  Board’s  decisions   was on the attainment of educational goals, and in the enhancement of the research reputation of the university. Success measures for educational initiatives were normally expressed in terms of student achievements, enrollments, and applications to the university. Success measures for research efforts were counts of the numbers of articles published and research grants received. Financial measures of success, when they were used at all, mainly comprised summaries of budgeted expenditures versus actual expenditures. With his MBA training and long business experience, Allen Carpenter found these traditional methods of project evaluation incomplete at  best,  and  superficial  at  worst.  Carpenter  had  set  out  to  change  the  approach,  and  largely  he   had succeeded. Now the university evaluated educational and research initiatives more like a

By using ERP in an organization not only deals with the Business and IT related issues but also focuses on other aspects like customer services, inventories, production, web portals..etc. But as we are aligning IT with Business, our main objective is through machines which drives the business to new level.

Cisco System, Inc is a Computer Technologies company that was founded in 1984. The company’s primary product is the “router.” The router is hardware and software that control Intranet and Internet traffic. With the growth of the Internet, Cisco products became in high demand. In 1997 Cisco was ranked among the top five companies in return on revenues and on assets. Cisco has been

ERP system integrates technology that ensures the operation are managed and used effectively by organization (Maguire et al., 2010). This system enables an organization can observe the different departmental functions in one database. It improves and shortens the business process, so restructure is essential for existing business.

In the past, ERP systems were used in larger and only in manufacturing companies. However, now a days, the use of ERP has changed and is extremely comprehensive, any type of company, no matter what industry it falls in can implement ERP. SAP is one of and the largest ERP system in the world. SAP software allows the integration of all units of an organization’s business operations in one system for planning, controlling and monitoring purpose. This means all the information that is entered by HR, can be accessed by finance team

ERP can be a difficult task, it takes more than months to setup and it costs more than software and hardware, but if everything is prepared with proper resources than implementation of ERP system can be completed with in budget in a proper or required time frame and deliver

Information systems play a vital role in improving the competitiveness of a company. There are many types of enterprise information software packages which are available in the market since the year of 90s till today (Mandal & Gunasekaran, 2003). Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of them. Due to intense competition around the world, many of the manufacturing company had decided to implement ERP. It assures one application, one database and is possible to unified interface across the entire organization. Many companies had not abstained from investing a large amount of money on ERP system, though the ERP implementation had high failure rate and well publicized (Ehie