...According to the book “Why ERP?: A Primer On SAP Implementation” by Jacobs and Whybark, the overall situation can be summarized into three main parts. First of all, the novel introduces us with a manufacturing manager of a furniture plant called Billy. His boss, Mr. McDougle, who owns the company, wants to buy his brother’s furniture plant in Ohio. Virtually, Ohio plant has already implemented SAP R/3, and MR. McDougle desires to run the same software at both company in order to get efficiency. Consequently, Billy learns about EPR systems, and he has some considerations of its implementation. Moreover, Billy feels deeply that his plant is operating well with its existing software system (MRP). Then, as a result, Mr. McDougle sends Billy to an SAP training seminar. He attends it to learn more about the system and to decide whether this system is appropriate for the plant. Finally, Billy goes to Ohio to evaluate the SAP R/3 installation in use at there which works successfully, and to learn about how the plant works depending on a comparison between the two companies. He ends up with several concerns about transferring the software from the Ohio plant to his. Finally, Billy presents his final recommendations to his boss, and he gives some guidelines for how ERP systems should be implemented. He agrees that the system will be useful only in accounting sector to provide integrated financial statement at both plants. Mr. McDougle insists the ERP should be implemented as the system...
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...Business Processes | 18 | 12. | Endnotes | 19 | ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEM ATLAS BATTERY LIMITED Acknowledgement: This project would not have been possible if not for our esteemed faculty Mr. Ahsan Ul Haq, his motivation has made this project possible. The Reason behind this project: This project was given to us inorder to understand how different companies use ERP’s in there everyday work and what kind of advantages does it provide to the company, we choose Atlas Battery LTD because most of their operations are done through the ERP’s they used the tier3i before but now they have shifted to ORACLE Business suite. This project provided us with the oportunity to actually understand the ERP system and the business processes that have been made possible by the ERP system. Introduction of the company: 1. In 1962, starting with an initial capital of Rs.500,000.00, Mr Yusuf HShirazi, the Founder of Atlas Group, established an investment company, Shirazi Investments (Private) Limited (SIL). This event marked the birth of Atlas Group.During this period Atlas Group grew rapidly.With this momentum, in 1966, Mr.Yusuf...
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...fraud on SAP project The success or failure of implementing ERP software depends on a number of factors. I will look at the case Marin County sues Deloitte: Alleges fraud on SAP project. Marin County filed a complaint against Deloitte Consulting for its role in an over-budget SAP implementation. The lawsuit alleges Deloitte committed fraud and misrepresented its skills and experience. One of the reasons why this ERP system failed was Deloitte knew the County didn’t have any prior ERP or SAP implementation experience and knew it would be depending on Deloitte to guide and manage the project. The complaint also states that Deloitte mishandled staffing, project management, risk management, and testing. When implementing ERP software customers, software vendors, and system integrators typically share responsibility for project success of failure. However, customers purchasing complex systems, such as ERP software, do have a high responsibility that their own projects outcome is successful. In Marin’s contract suggested the County was concerned about its own ability to manage the project properly. Being concerned with your own company’s ability to manage a project in the early stage of implementation is not a good thing and Marin County should’ve controlled the conversation with their system integrators and lead from that premise. It’s up to the customer such as Marin County to lead and drive the result of their ERP implementation project and can’t rely on their system integrator...
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...five member staff at the founding of the company in 1972 to approximately 53,000 employees 38 years later (sap.com ). That is like hiring an average of 1432 employees per year for the last 37 years; a significant contribution by many standards. The company's success and relevance to the world of Information Systems can be attributed to its founders, management, and employees realizing SAP's mission through a vision. It is hard to argue that the company had not done remarkably well, when in 2010 "more than 50,000 customers and other interested people attended SAP's SAPPHIRE Now event either live or online" (sap.com ). Curran and Ladd confirmed the company's success by noting, "SAP is the number one vendor of standard business application software and is the fourth largest independent...
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...1: What systems are described here? What valuable information do they provide? IT/IS System 1. Digital form: The Company had to establish several infrastructural components such as the computer network, backup system and security policy this enabled the implementation of various systems including time and attendance systems this has saved a lot of lost working hours and has been linked to the ERP. 2. Website – Having an attractive and informative website has become a major need .the website helps many functional departments including marketing HR, sales, and customers services. 3. ERP (Enterprise Resource planning) system: the company has picked Oracle E-business Suite after meeting planning what would really fit their needs. The modules chosen to help automate the business processes were: Oracle financials, inventory management, manufacturing sales and marketing, order management and procurement. CEO and it consultant involvement in the project steering committee and adequate training and change management . Question 2: What are the risks facing El-Alamein in implementing the ERP system? How do you evaluate the actions taken from their side to mitigate those risk factors? A. The company has identified key persons from all the functional areas who will act as change agents and take responsibility of persuading other employees of the importance of the system B. Train users to use the new system and understand how the business process will be affected. They have fostered...
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...Tektronix Inc: Global ERP Implementation 1.Business Context/Key Business Drivers * Tektronix manufactured a broad range of electronic test and measurement equipments, color printers and video and networking products. * In 1993, it was a $1.3 billion manufacturer and a worldwide leader in oscilloscopes with a more than twice the market share of its largest competitor. * It was the number one manufacturer of televisions, measuring and monitoring equipment and color printers. * multiplicity of application systems and no uniformity in technologies in its offices around the world. The Inefficient shipping schedule was inefficient because of problems with inventory. * Errors in order management. * NOo system to measure performance metrics and obtain customer information. * The technologies used were old and redundant technologies. * Inefficient financial administration, operations and profitability analysis was inefficient. 2. The Key Business Objectives: * Replace the legacy systems, do away with the need of manual coordination, * Implement improved information technology for fast and error free customer and organizational information, * Achieve integration in functioning across divisions and countries by creating a common template for various services, * Standardize processes, streamline their financial system, and create a functional order management system 3. Challenges and Solutions...
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...for Vodafone, they were able to identify the shortcomings within the infrastructure and rectify the situation before it really started to negatively affect business. 9-15 My understanding of the amount of time needed to effectively make the transformation involves the size of the company, the span with which they cover the globe, and to piggyback on the previous point, the different cultures involved within the company. The adjustment and ability to adapt is going to vary greatly from country to country. 9-16 As stated in the book (MIS, Pg.325), “Vodafone was a network of individual businesses, but it wanted to function more like a single global firm”. In order to do that, they needed to implement an ERP. Also stated, (MIS, Pg.325), “A common SAP ERP system would provide the technology platform for...
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...Study 111-5 Columbia Southern University With wanting to ‘Go Live” on December 30, 1997 NIBCO, Inc. had to put in a lot of hard work and man hours in order for this date to take off. NIBCO is a plant that produces valves and Pipes fittings and is located in Elkhart, Indiana. In 1996 NIBCO, had an annual estimated revenue of $461 million and 3000 on payroll. (Brown, DeHayes, Hoffer, Martin, & Perkins, 2012, p. 468). With a 15 month time frame for the project and a princely$ 17 million budget, NIBCO wanted to change to SAP R/3 at all of their plants including the four new North American distribution centers while endorsing the big bang approach (Brown et al., p. 468). NIBCOs decision to kick start an enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems where mainly contributed to an old outdated system the company could not move forward. The departments all had different systems, many that were alike and repeated some of the same functions, which was a waste of time and money. With the systems not communicating with one another it resulted in the distribution not seeing what the manufacturing was doing and manufacturing could not see what sales and distribution was doing (Brown, et al., p. 470). It was very timely to correct the issues from disconnects and building custom interfaces which would not meet the deadline to improve productivity. The system required a lot of maintenance and required a lot of preparation and changes due to the system crashes. A new and improved system...
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...IT460 Unit 4: ERP Vendor Recommendation and Structure Chart <<University Name>> <<Course>> Introduction - This project is divided into two tasks, Project A and B. In project A, I will browse through four ERP solutions vendor’s website and will summarize their offering. I will also recommend one of them and try and justify my recommendation. In project B, I will create a structure chart of the TIMS project. Part A – SAP Vendor Evaluation Analysis and review of four ERP vendors are performed to discuss about offerings and solution benefits. We will also try and choose one of the vendors that would meet needs of TIMS system. The vendors we will be looking at are SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Sage. SAP - SAP is one of the leading ERP solutions providers in the industry. SAP ERP, which is a part of the SAP business suite, is mainly divided into four major groups as stated on their ERP homepage. The first is SAP ERP Financial. This solution helps organizations in automating financial and management accounting. The module also helps organization also helps organizations to follow corporate governance mandates easily with extensive support. The second module is SAP HCM or Human Capital Management. This module, which supports organizations of almost any size, enables organizations to automate several human resource related activities like workforce management and other HR processes. The third solution is for Operations. This tool enables organizations to...
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...ERP Players Comparison SAP, JD Edwards, BAAN Objective • Understand the ERP systems • Identify the major players • Evaluate SAP, J D Edwards and BAAN in terms of market share, revenue, expertise, implementation time etc ERP • Enterprise Resource Planning • ERP refers to automation and integration of a company's core business to help them focus on effectiveness & simplified success. • ERP systems track business resources—cash, raw materials, production capacity—and the status of business commitments: orders, purchase orders, and payroll Major ERP Players • • • • • • • • • • • SAP ORACLE MICROSOFT LAWSON QAD Epicor JD EDWARDS KRONOS BAAN PEOPLESOFT INFO SAP • Systems Application & Products in data processing • It was founded in 1972 by five German engineers • SAP is the world's leading provider of business software • It delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation for their customers JD EDWARDS • On March 17, 1977 J.D. Edwards was formed, by Jack Thompson, Dan Gregery • JD Edwards is a leading provider of integrated software for distribution, human resource, finance, manufacturing & SCM • J.D Edwards emphasizes on the following three matters • Solution • Relationship • Value • It was purchased by PeopleSoft, Inc. in 2003. PeopleSoft, in turn, was purchased by Oracle Corporation in 2005, and Oracle continues to sell and support Enterprise One and World ERP software line. BAAN • Baan company was founded in Netherlands in 1978 by brothers Jan...
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...program (Company) | 9.3 | 34.0 | 10.3 | 3.4 | 19.3 | | Note: the red bolded numbers are the highest software usage for that particular department for all programs, with the average being at the bottom. 2. I would recommend training for the programs that are most used in each department. For example, in Sales I would recommend that they train in word processing as the most hours on average are spent on that program. For operations and accounting, the use of spreadsheets take up most of their time spent on software and thus I would train in the use of spreadsheets. 3. For the entire company, word processing takes up 9.3 hours on average, spreadsheets take the most at 34 hours, database take 10.3, presentation is last with only 3.4 and accounting comes in second at 19.3. If I were to recommend only one training program, I would suggest that training be spent on spreadsheets as they are used the most by the departments collectively. They are also the main program used for both operations and accounting by large margins. 4. I think that graphs show a better understanding of the differences in program use between not only the programs themselves but also the different departments. A visual representation is a more vivid explanation of the average usage of each program. Likewise, both charts show just how much the spreadsheet programs are used by the company in comparison to the others. I think it is a more effective method. 5. One method that can be used is the use of...
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...Payable Module, POS Module, Bank Reconciliation Module, Asset Management and Accounting, and Security. The General Ledger Module contains the chart of accounts, transaction details, financial reporting, budgets, and limit manual data entry. The Accounts Payable Module includes vendor codes, master files, check printing, tax and freight allocations, and bank accounts. The POS Module includes retail sales and reports, provides data to the General Ledger, and cash and credit sales transactions. The Bank Reconciliation Module handles reconciling checks, account deposits, and account balances and assists in cash flow analysis by collating data from the other modules. Asset Management and Accounting are controlled and amortized using spreadsheet software. Security for the REMS has imbedded features, such as, passwords, dollar limits, and limited access to features. The modules are just some of the key features that the new accounting system will provide while...
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...Database program Vs. Spreadsheet program When choosing which type of program you should use to manage your customer records, you need to know what the difference is between the two. Spreadsheets are designed to analyze data and sort list items, not for long-term storage of raw data. A spreadsheet should be used for ‘crunching’ numbers and storage of single list items. Spreadsheet programs provide the means for keeping inventory, statistical data modeling, and computing data. They also include graphing functions that allow for quick reporting and analysis of data. Spreadsheet programs are relatively easy to use, require little training to get started, and have the advantage that most data mangers are somewhat familiar with them. The disadvantages of spreadsheets include having to re-copy data over and over again to maintain it in separate data files, the inability to efficiently identify data errors, the lack of detailed sorting and querying abilities, and sharing violations among users wishing to view or change data at the same time. Additionally, spreadsheets are restricted to a finite number of records, and can require a large amount of hard-drive space for data storage. Databases require little or no duplication of data between information tables, and changes made to the data do not corrupt the programming. Databases offer better security to restrict users from accessing privileged information, and from changing coded information in the programming. Furthermore, the two...
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...DEFINITION OF MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) MYOB was founded in the late 1980s by Christopher Lee and a team of developers at Teleware, Inc., who developed accounting software. Teleware was purchased by Best Software, Inc. (now part of Sage) in 1993. Data-Tech Software was the Australia republished of the MYOB products and, in 1997 entered into an agreement with Best Software to buy the company (renamed MYOB, Inc.) and bought the intellectual property rights to the software. In 1999, Data-Tech changed their name to MYOB Limited and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on 9 July 1999. In subsequent corporate development, MYOB Limited merged with Solution 6 Holdings in 2004. Though the company was originally founded in the US, it ceased operations outside of Australia in 2008. On 6 December 2008, Acclivity announced it acquired MYOB US Inc. and its Mac (and PC) development team from MYOB Limited of Australia. Acclivity will now drive global development of MYOB's Mac OS business management products – Account Edge Basic, Account Edge Pro and Account Edge Pro Network Edition. In January 2009, a private equity consortium led by Archer Capital completed a takeover bid for MYOB, returning MYOB to private ownership. On 21 August 2011, Archer Capital sold MYOB to Bain Capital for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition gives Bain Capital a majority stake in MYOB alongside management who will continue to be shareholders in the company. MYOB now has a suite of subscription-based...
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...They both perform essentially the same thing, and are under the very same principles and concepts with the only differences being in the mechanics (Shanker, 2011). There are many factors facing manual accounting compared to computerized accounting today: speed, cost, and back up. Speed is important in accounting today due to the large companies and their investors. Using today’s computerized accounting systems, processing data, and reports are faster and more accurate causing less errors, and increases efficiency. This is all done with the push of a button (Shanker, 2011). Doing accounting manually is cheaper, but takes longer and is more likely to have errors. Using the computerized system is more costly due to the purchases of software, computer, training, and program upkeep. Other expenses with the computerized system...
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