Information Systems Volume 6 | Issue 3 July 2014 Identifying Critical Success Factors: the case of ERP Systems in Higher Education Billy Mathias BM Kalema Dr Tshwane University of Technology‚ kalemabm@tut.ac.za Oludayo O. Olugbara Prof Durban University of Technology‚ oludayoo@dut.ac.za Ray M. Kekwaletswe Prof University of the Witwatersrand‚ Ray.Kekwaletswe@wits.ac.za Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ajis Part of the Management Information Systems Commons
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COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATED ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP) SYSTEM prepared by the Secretariat I. INTRODUCTION The forty-eighth session of the Assemblies of Member States of WIPO in September 2010‚ approved the Secretariat’s proposal for the Implementation of a Comprehensive Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System (documents WO/PBC/15/17 and A/48/14). The expected benefits from the implementation of the ERP system are: (i) the modernization of WIPO’s core administrative
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this document it to provide a brief history of ELTs‚ the satellite system that monitors ELT deployment‚ a summary of how the ELT works‚ and how it’s installed. I will also attempt to show the benefits of upgrading your existing 121.5 MHz Emergency Locator Transmitter to the newer and more efficient 406 MHz ELT. I also outline in general terms how to register a new 406 MHz ELT‚ and give a comparison of the two types of ELT systems (121.5 MHz and the 406 MHz). Finally I give you a brief summary of
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In the 1990s ERP was developed further to cover management information‚ cross-functional coordination and integration in support of various production processes. Although ERP systems offered many advantages‚ up until the late 1990s they could not take full advantage of internet technology. Even the few web-enabled ERP systems offered limited functionality. This resulted in the 21st century ERP-II which took full advantages of technological advances like internet. ERP-II comes with comprehensive
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Journal of Computing and Information Technology 1 ERP System Implementation and Business Process Change: Case Study of a Pharmaceutical Company Vesna Bosilj-Vuksic and Mario Spremic Department of Business Computing‚ Graduate School of Economics & Business‚ University of Zagreb‚ Croatia The main objective of this paper is to present the impacts of information technology (IT) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in business process renovation and to discuss selected aspects of
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two main issues Sinosteel had to take care of: • The lack of standardization: Even after becoming a subsidiary of Sinosteel‚ the companies used to keep their former management processes‚ managerial regulations‚ coding‚ human resources management systems‚ etc. This obviously resulted in a quite difficult global management of the enterprise since having a clear overview of the company was uneasy‚ if not impossible. • The decentralized information: The information within the different Sinosteel’s subsidiaries
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PepsiCo’s‚ Pepsi Beverages Company. Today PepsiCo makes $60 billion in revenues and has 285‚000 employees. PepsiAmericas chose to implement a PeopleSoft ERP solution to increase the profitability of the company. The core ERP components helped PepsiAmericas to improve its business by establishing a complete integration of the front- and back-office systems. The software provided a match between real-time customer information‚ customer orders and customer account balance. Because of the easy accessibility
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Case Study 7.1.: ERP Helps Productivity at Northern Digital Inc. Question: 1. For a small company like NDI‚ why is an ERP better than SCM applications? Answer: ERP supports internal supply chain within an enterprise‚ while SCM applications support just certain part of internal supply chain. Therefore‚ for small companies like NDI‚ it’s more efficient and effective to implement one system‚ namely ERP‚ instead of more SCM systems. Further‚ ERP software support several functionalities for supply
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with the system. I will then go on to write a case study regarding a major company which has implemented an ERP system‚ providing a detailed account of the costs and benefits which arose as a result. I will start this case study with a brief contextual background of the company. Literature review The purpose of Enterprise Resource Planning‚ or ERP‚ is to effectively integrate all departments and functions within any given business onto one computer system. If implemented appropriately‚ ERP should
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STUDY ON CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ERP IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 2|P a ge Contents Acknowledgement ................................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Modules at a glance ..............................................................
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