...ASSIGNMENT 1 BEST OF BREED versus ERP SYSTEMS (BCO6603) PRESENTED BY YOUSUFATA Student ID: 4438319 Victoria University Introduction If the organization software world (logistics , manufacturing , HR , Finance ) Held any competition for the premium software solution , it would make up a list such as SAP , Oracle and Infor as ERP System versus Best –of-breed vendor Manhattan Associates ,i2 and High ,Jump.(Patridge,2007) ERP maybe the best available but Best-of-Breed system is minimizing the Gap lately and the selection process for consumers become more hard as what system to choose. (Amy Patridge, 2007 ) Best Of Breed System Best of breed systems are customized system or applications which are designed for the individual department of the organization (e.g , Pharmacy Information system , ware house distribution , laboratory system , radiology system). Each system built on the particular department data of the company or firm which is customized to meet the needs of external and internal users for more efficient out come(Stacey,2010). Best of Breed system provide expert solution for specific issues in individual organization business modules, for example a general practitioner or a specialist for your medical problem ,Best of breed work as specialist for specific business module(Moffit,1998). Advantages of Best Of Breed System According to (Stacy,2010) , the benefits of Best of Breed system are , * Once the system implemented, it take...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 BEST OF BREED versus ERP SYSTEMS (BCO6603) PRESENTED BY JOHN SMITH Student ID: 1234567 Victoria University Assignment 1: Management Report 1234567 John Smith 1 Introduction 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. “Best Of Breed” System “Best of Breed” is a collection of different applications from different vendors that used in an organisation to run a business (Leahy 2004). Typically, the “best of breed” vendors are focused on a single application. Thus, they have more knowledgeable and able to produce a richer set of functionality (Thompson 2003). Advantages According to Carroll (2002) and Montgomery (2003), the advantages of using the “best of breed” are; Produce a richer set of functionality from particular application for each business area. Flexibility to substitute of individual element in the application without major reconstruction to the system. Getting response faster from the vendor to adopt and create new function as the vendor is specialising in particular system application. Assignment 1: Management Report 1234567 John Smith 2 Disadvantages ...
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...modern special report 1 0 1 0 1 28 Ju ly 2 0 1 1 / M o d E R n MaTE Rial S Hand ling 1 11 11 1 00 00 0 11 0 1 00 11 11 0 00 0I 1 00 11 0 10 01 0 11 0 01 1 00 11 0 00 10 1 1 11 000 0 By Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor f you’re of a certain age, you may remember those crazy bounces you could get from a Super Ball. The image is an apt way of describing the bounce in the market for supply chain management software in 2010. The worldwide market for supply chain management software applications, maintenance and services, or SCM, came in at $6.755 billion in 2010, including applications for procurement software, and nearly $4.6 billion without procurement, according to Chad Eschinger, a research director with Gartner (www.gartner.com). That’s an impressive 10% bounce over 2009. “It was a good, up year,” Eschinger says. That’s a bit of an understatement given that 2009 had posted a 1.9% decline over prior year revenues, the first year-overyear drop in revenues for SCM software since Modern began publishing an annual Top 20 list in 2001. When it comes to market leadership, 2010 reminds us of the lyrics from that old Billie Holliday song, “God Bless The Child:” “Yes, the strong gets more, while the weak ones fade.” The market leaders look much the same as they did in 2009, with SAP ($1.317 billion) and Oracle ($1.21 billion) still at the top of the list and posting impressive gains over 2009. They were followed by JDA Software ($362 million), Manhattan Associates ($136...
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...ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Develop an understanding of how ERP systems can improve the effectiveness of information systems in organizations. 2. Understand the business benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. 3. Understand the history and evolution of ERP. CHAPTER OUTLINE 1. A Foundation for Understanding Enterprise Resource Planning Systems a. The Emergence of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems 1. What is ERP? 2. The Evolution of ERP 3. The Integrated Systems Approach b. Business Benefits of ERP c. ERP Modules d. ERP Design Alternatives e. The Business Case for ERP 1. Cost-Benefit Analysis for ERP 2. Can ERP Provide a Competitive Advantage? f. The Challenge of Implementing an ERP System g. Summary ANSWERS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS Questions for Discussion: 1. Use on-line library databases to identify articles in trade publications which provide case studies of ERP implementations. These articles may provide some insight into each of these questions. a. How widespread is the use of ERP across certain industries? b. What are the benefits reported from implementing ERP? c. What are its limitations? 2. Research and learn about the implementation of ERP. Use trade publications and on-line library databases (e.g. ABI Inform, ProQuest, First Search, Wilson Select Plus, available through your library) to conduct a search for articles. a. Find a success story of ERP implementation. What factors...
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...resource planning (ERP) is a business management software—usually a suite of integrated applications—that a company can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities, including:- Product planning, cost and development Manufacturing or service delivery Marketing and sales Inventory management Shipping and payment ERP provides an integrated view of core business processes, often in real-time, using common databases maintained by a database management system. ERP systems track business resources—cash, raw materials, production capacity—and the status of business commitments: orders, purchase orders, and payroll. The applications that make up the system share data across the various departments (manufacturing, purchasing, sales, accounting, etc.) that provide the data.[1] ERP facilitates information flow between all business functions, and manages connections to outside stakeholders.[2] Enterprise system software is a multi-billion dollar industry that produces components that support a variety of business functions. IT investments have become the largest category of capital expenditure in United States-based businesses over the past decade. Though early ERP systems focused on large enterprises, smaller enterprises increasingly use ERP systems.[3] The ERP system is considered a vital organizational tool because it integrates varied organizational systems and facilitates error-free transactions and production. However, ERP system development...
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...retail business market, the challenge of delivering The amount of consolidation in the ERP vendor space and supporting a consistent and comprehensive set of has gone beyond most everyone’s predictions. There are application solutions across the enterprise has become fewer ERP solution providers today than there were ten overwhelming and can be quite costly. The complexity of years ago and the larger ERP solution providers have the technologies demands specialized talent to select, dramatically expanded their base retail offerings with deploy and support these solutions. In retail this has critical acquisitions in POS, Ecommerce, CRM, Order served to redirect the focus of many IT organizations Management and Business Intelligence. Today, there away from the activities that are most important to are only a handful of ERP solution providers with the the retail business: product development, supply chain breadth and maturity of offerings adequate to run most management and customer selling. Instead, these IT retail operations. organizations are focused on managing the “infrastructure” end of the retail solution delivery stack and dedicating enormous amounts of discretionary spending (both Opex and Capex) to keep these solutions viable. At the same time, the pace of acquisition in the ERP solution space has far surpassed the ERP solution provider’s ability to properly merge these technology solutions in a timely...
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...to MBS sales efforts—with the supposedly minimal training for the information technology (IT)-resource constrained SME market. In fact, the ongoing Outlook, Excel, or Word user interface (UI) metaphor moves may speak volumes about where the entire market is going. Possibly the most vocal in that regard could be the recent announcement made by Microsoft and SAP that they are jointly developing a product that will integrate back-end SAP business processes and transactional data into Microsoft Office front-ends. The product, code-named Project Mendocino, whose beta release is due out in the fourth quarter of 2005, with full availability slated for next year, promises to bridge the disparate worlds of mySAP ERP instances and Office desktop applications, and is aimed at mySAP ERP and later releases and Office 2003, whereby the...
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...Portland State University School of Business Administration FIN 565: Cases in Corporate Finance Case Descriptions and Suggestions Fall 2010 As you review the case descriptions and read the cases, develop a plan for your analysis. The case report and presentation should include, but not be limited to, the suggested questions I have provided. Do not submit or present the case a simply a numbered series of answers to the questions. The case analysis must be a narrative report that includes the information needed to answer the questions. Financial Statement Analysis Identify the Industry – 2007 Substantive Issues This case provides financial statement data for 10 companies from 10 different industries from Thomson Banker One – Analytics. Using knowledge of the industries’ financial characteristics and financial rations, you are asked to match each of the 10 financial statement data sets to an appropriate industry. You are provided with common-sized income statements (all items scaled by revenues), common-sized balance sheets (all items scaled by total assets) and selected financial ratios. All data are averaged over three years – 2004 – 2006 – to smooth out one-time items. Pedagogical Objectives This case illustrates the difficulty of identifying a company in an industry since do few companies operate in a single homogeneous industry. It also serves to get each class member engaged with team members in an effort to determine the strengths of each member...
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...Extract from the Book “ERP Demystified” by Alexis Leon, Publisher: Tata Mc Graw Hill Publishing Co-2008 edition ( by Dileep Kumar, Secretary, Association of Knowledge Workers, Lucknow ) Part 1: Introduction: 1. What is an Enterprise? An enterprise is a group of people with a common goal, which has certain resources at its disposal to achieve this goal. In traditional approach , the organization is divided into different nits based on the functions they perform. These departments function in isolation and have their own systems of data collection and analysis. In enterprise way the entire organization is considered a system and all departments are its sub system, each sub system knows what others are doing , why they are doing and what should be done to move the company towards common goal. If the information that is generated is accurate, timely and relevant, then the systems will go a long way in helping the organization to realize its goals What is ERP? ERP integrates the information system of an organization and automates most of the functions. The activities supported by ERP system include all core functions of an organization, including financial management, human resource management, and operations. Increasingly, ERP vendors are offering “bolt-on” products , such as business Intelligence (BI), Product Life Cycle Management (PLM), Advance Planning and Scheduling (APS),Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management etc Why ERP ? Today having an ERP is not a luxury,...
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...Review for ERP/Systems Integration & Administration Lec. Dr. Abdullatif Ghallab ghallab@gmail.com أسئلة للمراجعة قبل امتحان نصف الفصل الدراسي الثاني – للعام الجامعي 5102-6102م اسم المقرر: تخطيط موارد المؤسسة/تكامل وإدارة النظم TYPES OF QUESTIONS A. END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS B. ESSAY QUESTIONS C. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS D. CASE QUESTIONS E. TRUE & FALSE QUESTIONS F. MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS CH1 X X √ CH3 X X √ √ CH4 √ √ √ X X X X X X √ √ √ 1 CH2 X √ X √ √ Review for ERP/Systems Integration & Administration Lec. Dr. Abdullatif Ghallab ghallab@gmail.com CH01- INTRODUCTION TO ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS FOR MANAGEMENT A. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Refer to the Hershey case. What were the goals and details of the Enterprise 21 project? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 2. Establish a single supply chain across all divisions. Streamline all business processes by reengineering them across all functional areas. Increase the gross margin and maintain sales growth. Save $75 – 80 million through corporate restructuring and closing of older distribution sites. Fix their Y2K problem and replace existing mainframe environment. Refer to the Hershey case. What were some of the key problems that Hershey encountered when choosing, integrating and implementing their new ERP system? The implementation of the ERP for Hershey was beset with difficulties due to a number of failures: a. Project management issues...
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...|RESEARCH PROPOSAL | |On | |CLOUD COMPUTING AND SECUTITY | |Submitted | |for Ph.D. Approval | | | | | |By Mr. MBANZABUGABO Jean Baptiste(BE,MSSE,MCA) | TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT..................................................................................................3 1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................4 1. GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY.................................................................................................. 5 2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES .......................................................................5 2. LITERATURE REVIEW ...........................................................................6 3. METHODOLOGY...
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...Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). By Dave Piasecki © Copyright. Content on InventoryOps.com is copyright-protected and is not available for republication. The evolution of warehouse management systems (WMS) is very similar to that of many other software solutions. Initially a system to control movement and storage of materials within a warehouse, the role of WMS is expanding to including light manufacturing, transportation management, order management, and complete accounting systems. To use the grandfather of operations-related software, MRP, as a comparison, material requirements planning (MRP) started as a system for planning raw material requirements in a manufacturing environment. Soon MRP evolved into manufacturing resource planning (MRPII), which took the basic MRP system and added scheduling and capacity planning logic. Eventually MRPII evolved into enterprise resource planning (ERP), incorporating all the MRPII functionality with full financials and customer and vendor management functionality. Now, whether WMS evolving into a warehouse-focused ERP system is a good thing or not is up to debate. What is clear is that the expansion of the overlap in functionality between Warehouse Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Transportation Management Systems, Supply Chain Planning, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, and Manufacturing Execution Systems will only increase the level of confusion among companies looking for software...
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...Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) The evolution of warehouse management systems (WMS) is very similar to that of many other software solutions. Initially a system to control movement and storage of materials within a warehouse, the role of WMS is expanding to including light manufacturing, transportation management, order management, and complete accounting systems. To use the grandfather of operations-related software, MRP, as a comparison, material requirements planning (MRP) started as a system for planning raw material requirements in a manufacturing environment. Soon MRP evolved into manufacturing resource planning (MRPII), which took the basic MRP system and added scheduling and capacity planning logic. Eventually MRPII evolved into enterprise resource planning (ERP), incorporating all the MRPII functionality with full financials and customer and vendor management functionality. Now, whether WMS evolving into a warehouse-focused ERP system is a good thing or not is up to debate. What is clear is that the expansion of the overlap in functionality between Warehouse Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Transportation Management Systems, Supply Chain Planning, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, and Manufacturing Execution Systems will only increase the level of confusion among companies looking for software solutions for their operations. Even though WMS continues to gain added functionality, the initial core functionality...
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...Ronald D; Alshare, Khaled A; Lane, Peggy L; Wen, H Joseph. Journal of Information Systems Education21.2 (2010): 173-184. The title captures the objective of the study which is to evaluate the success of the E-learning based on the IS success model. Abstract This study utilized the Information Systems Success (ISS) model in examining e-learning systems success. The study was built on the premise that system quality (SQ) and information quality (IQ) influence system use and user satisfaction, which in turn impact system success. A structural equation model (SEM), using LISREL, was used to test the measurement and structural models using a convenience sample of 674 students at a Midwestern university. The results revealed that both system quality and information quality had significant positive impact on user satisfaction and system use. Additionally, the results showed that user satisfaction, compared to system use, had a stronger impact on system success. Implications for educators and researchers are reported. Keywords: IS Success, E-Learning, User satisfaction, System use, System quality, Information quality 1. INTRODUCTION Both undergraduate and graduate courses are experiencing a migration away from the traditional classroom and toward a greater emphasis for electronic delivery of content (Allen and Seaman, 2008). This trend cuts across all departments and schools in the university system but is especially critical in business schools, since the preparation of students...
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...Class: 1 Type: Lecture Introduction Nobody will dispute the fact that operations are becoming increasingly international or even global in nature. Less clear, though, is what this actually means for operations. Drivers of globalization include increased competitiveness through offshore manufacturing and increased sales by expanding into new markets, but the associated opportunities and challenges are totally different and highly industry-dependent. Clearly, the issues facing a hi-tech firm are different than those facing a global consulting firm, software is a different ballgame than textile, etc. "Global operations" can refer to, among others, global sourcing, to having manufacturing or service or R&D facilities world-wide, or to supplying global markets, each of which have very different ramifications: Global sourcing Global manufacturing Global distribution . dealing with foreign . facility location . local content regulations suppliers . coordinating networks . managing global . managing international of plants distribution logistics . coordinating networks . managing risk . managing risk of R&D facilities . operations in other countries Page intentionally left blank. Class: 2a Type: Lecture Supply Chain Management & Service The goal in this part is to introduce the two main sections of the course, international...
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