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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Critical factors for successful ERP implementation: Exploratory findings from four case studies Jaideep Motwani a‚*‚ Ram Subramanian a‚ Pradeep Gopalakrishna b a Seidman School of Business‚ Grand Valley State University‚ Department of Management‚ 401 West Fulton‚ Grand Rapids‚ MI 49504‚ USA b Department of Marketing and International Business‚ Lubin School of Business‚ Pace University‚ New York‚ NY 10038‚ USA Received 29 March 2004; received in revised form 14 December 2004; accepted 13 February
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Project Students name: Registration number: Course: Date: Table of Contents ABSTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 5 VENDOR OVERVIEW 8 INTRODUCTION 8 SAP 8 ORACLE 9 BUSINESS FUNCTIONS 13 Production 14 Sales 14 Support services 15 External services 15 BUSINESS FUNCTIONS SUPPORTED BY ORACLE AND SAP 16 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM FROM SAP AND ORACLE 19 COST COMPARISON BETWEEN SAP AND ORACLE 20 EASE OF USE 22 ERP MODULES 23 Oracle’s Financial Management
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ERP as Software as a Service *(*SaaS*)* for SMEs Table of Contents Page Abstract The main barriers for implementing ERP systems in SMEs were constraints in terms of resources and information‚ implementation time escalations‚ poorly defined organisational structures‚ weak formalisation of procedures or processes‚ unclear and also confused understanding amongst the employees and management. There are various methods to overcome the barriers of implementing ERP solutions in SMEs. This
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shipped from all over the world to be assembled in Malaysia and then shipped to US and 20 other global markets. Each market has its own profit center with Independent executives that make local market decisions. Maytag wants to now implement an ERP system from SAP for a common sourcing and logistics platform
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1997-1999. The purpose of the case was to critique the process of selecting a modular ERP system to support supply chain management for this large manufacturing company. Recognizing that the purchasing process for obtaining materials and parts was out of control‚ management coordinated a project to understand its purchasing process and activities‚ solicit feedback from the 800 people who would be affected by the new system‚ and create a complete transformation in thinking and action regarding the procurement
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SAP AG’S R/3 ERP implementation failure at Hershey’s Food Corporation Problem What could have done otherwise to avoid the SAP AG’S R/3 ERP implementation failure at Hershey’s Food Corporation? Areas of Consideration In late 1996‚ Hershey Foods Corporation the leading manufacturer of chocolates‚ confectionaries and beverages in United States of America began modernizing hardware and software systems in the company. In an attempt to manage Y2K issues‚ it chose to replace those systems and shift to
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OPEN SOURCE ERP SOFTWARE Ahmad Kamal ABSTRACT Along with the increasing use of Enterprise Resource Planning software‚ and begin to popular open source movement‚ open source ERP has become a new alternative control system resources in an organization. It has been widely available open source ERP software‚ with different features as well‚ so it is sometimes difficult to choose which is suitable to the needs of the user. This paper discusses about the features and functionality of ERP software popular
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In the years following the formal introduction Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the early 1990s‚ there have been few ERP implementations that have been managed successfully‚ including those introduced by large corporations. Although much capital is usually put into ERP implementation‚ lack of key business practices has prevented extensive success. This paper reviews failed ERP implementations in three large organizations. It analyzes the reasons for the failures as well as the lessons
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Implementation Life cycle The ERP implementation life cycle consist of; Pre evaluation Screening Package evaluation Project planning phase Gap Analysis Reengineering Configuration Implementation team Training Testing Going Live End-User Training Post Implementation Pre-evaluation Screenings In order to develop a new ERP package the available packages should be evaluated before coming to the solution But this pre evaluation should be done with a chosen number of packages since
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