What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Enterprise Resource Planning?

As a result of technological advancements, modern businesses seek new and improved methods of conducting their business processes. Systems have been designed to augment and manage core business functions such as production, accounting, procurement, and human resources. However, even with these systems in place, information is unreliable and inconsistent if they are on disparate platforms. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software tackles this problem by integrating business processes into a centralized system.

Enterprise resource planning is a term derived from material resource planning. ERP systems typically handle the manufacturing, logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping, invoicing, and accounting for a company. Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP software can aid in the contro of many business activities, like sales, delivery, billing, production, inventory management, and human resources management.

To be successful in today's competitive and continuous evolving information technology (IT) market companies must be able to utilise their skills, information and knowledge to the highest efficiency level possible. Utilisation of and control over these factors will aid companies in acquiring and maintaining competitive advantages over others operating in the same competitive IT market. The implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system would be perfect to suit a

Disadvantages Koch (2005) and MacLeod (2002) state disadvantages of using the ERP are; ERP systems are historically big, complex and expensive. Thus, it may take many years to learn and understand about the applications. Difficulty in managing people such as having trained staff to understand process and system implementation better. Lengthy implementation periods because of the complex of the system. Creates internal conflict within organisations, between departments has different needs and requirement. This problem can instead bring the business performances down. Upgrading the system can create a new problem, as it cannot be done

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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.

With an integrated software application, Enterprise Resource Planning systems automate the activity of finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management. It can be implemented on a variety of computer hardware and network configurations, by creating a database as storage for information.

For the last two decades, Enterprise Resource Planning systems significantly attracted the industries’ attention. However, ERP implementations is considered one of the most difficult to implement difficult to maintain systems. Hence, there are some critical factors which impact the success or failure of ERP implementation. These factors do not only affect the process of ERP implementation but may also impact the business as whole and in some cases it will result

The current world is faced with stiff technological advancement and so does the business world. Information and technology must be fully integrated and utilized in order to achieve goals and objectives in any business. Research has shown that companies that have integrated their processes in their businesses have experienced more success in terms of efficiencies in operations(Adam & O’Doherty, 2000). It is important that information and data is efficiently shared between the business organization, customers and suppliers who might be geographically dispersed. Enterprise Resource Planning is a dream comes true for most companies since it helps in integration of all business units.

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. Most of the companies have faced heavy problems while trying to implement ERP systems and have led to serious problems.

Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) integrates the external and the internal management of information across the organization. ERP systems automate the different business processes like sales and service, customer relationship management, finance, accounting, manufacturing with an integrated software application. It is a complex software package that integrates the data and the processes across the organization. Separate systems were maintained in 1960’s by the organizations for different business functions which required frequent updates and lead to ineffeciences in the organization. Since it’s inception in 1990’s ERP systems have been developed drastically with top players like SAP and Oracle. These systems have improved data efficiency, improved data accuracy, improved efficiency and productivity. Many companies tried to implement ERP, some failed while some successfully implemented it. The following paper describes what were the factors that lead to industy’s biggest ERP failures and what companies did the right things for successful ERP implementations.

ERP software is an integrated system used by organizations to combine, organize and maintain the data necessary for operations. ERP helps organization’s operations, including the manufacturing, distribution, financial, human resources and customer relations departments, into one software system. Selecting an ERP software package and implementing it correctly can deliver big benefits to the company. When the ERP software implementation is performed correctly, ERP software can revitalize an organization by streamlining and synchronizing its separate departments into one unified software system. When these selections of ERP software are done without focus and good planning, the ERP software project can have some problems

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.

The ERP is the face of the entire management system. This business management software is a suite of integrated applications that organizations use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data from many business activities (Wikepedia, 2012). The key component to the ERP is the producing and providing of information in real-time, supporting operations functions such as purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, shipping, etc. In addition to the ERP, other inputs into the EMS include

The success of any business lies in effective communication and proper data exchange within internal departments. Delayed in latest information is a remarkable obstacle in failure of any business. To overcome this problem, a proficient solution "ERP" came into existence. The vast tool, capable of integrating internal business processes of any organization, is so called termed as Enterprise Resource Planning. ERP is an approach of amalgamating the various departments of an enterprise such as Sales, HR, Finance, Marketing, Production, Warehouse, etc. The single source where internal departments can share and access information quickly is ERP. In actual, ERP is a wide centralized database where all the inter-departmental data is stored. It is capable of performing multiple operations in a single time and can be used by various enterprise units at the same time.