...An ERP Story Group – 5 Sec – B Abhishek Sethi 1011049 Ankit Sachdeva 1011119 Ankit Surana 1011027 Sneha Manan 1011005 S Sreyas 1011089 Nipun Sharma 1011072 1. What are the main characteristics and challenges identified by Jean Roberge? Ans: As Jean Roberge was appointed the vice president of Information Technologies Management after the merger of ABS with the acquisition of two major insurance companies i.e. General Maritime Protection of eastern region and Western General Insurance of the west region to make ABS as a major pan Canadian insurer. As the merger took place there was a lot of inefficiency in field of operation, finance, HR and marketing & sales. Jean Roberge decided to provide an integrated management system which could be used for financial, HR, operations and marketing & sales will bring out the efficiency as Roberge see a high potential in this. As of now all the three companies are operating with their own systems, own work policies so they feel the need of reengineering with the help of an integrated system. For the restricting the work system a great deal of manual work is required from all the three companies to prepare a consolidated report so that Roberge could exactly know the condition of financial & human resource of ABS. Moreover, in case of marketing & sales collecting the data and consolidating was a big challenge for them as the information of all the three companies was high and diversified. The major challenges for Jean Roberge were: ...
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...as possible" or the white liquid that sips from the back of a tree, either. SAP stands for Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing. In this highly advanced technological era, it is almost unimaginable for companies not to implement systems such as SAP’s so as to boost their Information Systems. Since the global community has 'gotten much smaller', than say fifty years ago, it is imperative that companies design their Information Systems with integrated features so as to operate effectively between countries. The implementation of SAP technology is no longer an advantage but a competitive parity and its relevance toward the field of Management Information Systems is paramount. "Get in the game or fall off the wayside." The story and development of this giant of a company is remarkable. SAP grew from a very modest 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...
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...STORY Global Bike Inc. Background and overview of GBI strategy and operations. Product MOTIVATION PREREQUISITES SAP ERP G.B.I. Release 6.04 A general understanding of GBI (the enterprise) prior to embarking on hands-on exercises and case studies in the SAP ERP client is critical for success. None Level Undergraduate Beginner Focus Company Background NOTES None This narrative provides a historical background for how GBI began and an overview of its operations and strategy. This information will be used extensively throughout the curriculum material. Authors Simha Magal Stefan Weidner Version 2.11 © SAP AG CASE STUDY Company History Task Get to know the company’s history. Time 15 min Short Description Read the below narrative to learn about the company’s history. Global Bike Inc. has a pragmatic design philosophy that comes from its deep roots in both the off-road trail racing and long-distance road racing sports. Nearly 20 years ago, its founders designed their first bikes out of necessity—they had races to win and the bikes that were available at the time did not perform to their extremely high standards. So, they took matters into their own hands and built legendary bikes that would outlast and outperform the competition. From these humble origins, Global Bike Incorporated was born and continues to deliver innovative highperformance bicycles to the world’s most demanding riders. Notes ...
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...modern trade.” KS Arunkumar, IT Group Manager, Hindustan Unilever Limited Summary Name: Hindustan Unilever Limited Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Industry: Consumer Products Employees: 15,000 Website www.hll.com Key Challenges Arrival of modern trade in India Legacy systems and business infrastructure were unable to meet transaction and process capability requirements of the modern trade Project Objectives Optimise business operation and simplify IT management Achieve process consolidation internally and across the value chain Preserve investment of legacy inventory and cash-to-order management system for business partners Integrate with business partners’ IT infrastructure quickly and seamlessly Solutions and Services Phase 1: SAP ERP Central Component 5.0, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI), SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM), SAP Solution Manager, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI), SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE) Phase 2: SAP Customer Relationship Management, SAP Advanced Planning & Optimisation Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling, SAP Transportation Planning and Vehicle Scheduling Implementation Highlights Rollout in two phases. Phase 1 went live in September 2007 Why SAP Solution SAP is Unilever Group’s global premium IT solutions provider SAP NetWeaver PI enables processcentric collaboration Key Benefits Streamlined business operations Improved information sharing with...
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...t Introduction: Event management is basically an organization responsible for conducting events like conference, product launch, seminars, ceremony etc as per the requirement of the customer. Basic task: Prepare event design, finding a site/place, arranging a food décor, pickups and accommodation, coordinating activities etc The number of task that would be undertaken would depend upon the size and theme of the event. Purpose: Is to put customer at ease by providing management services to customers like accommodation, sending invites, certificate distribution, setting up platform etc. The main focus of the company is to come up with the successful events without any hiccups and without consuming much of the customer’s time. Customers often lack the expertise and time to plan the event and thus hire event management companies to manage the event on their behalf so that they could solely focus on their work. Type of market: cooperate market and social market Cooperate market includes seminars, conferences, charities collection, trade show, company picnic, meeting of board members and stockholders Accounting market of events Profit margin, expenses and deal with customers for gain,(rent of place, service charges, one person serving for catering services, transportation charges, décor expenses tent reception, entertainment and accessories, printing charges, accommodation charges, contingency fund (if something went wrong then in that case we could use that fund...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Executive Summary ABCO Consulting thanks the Riordan organization for allowing us to do this upgrade analysis. A review of the existing infrastructure at Riordan has been completed and the findings are contained in this document. There will be a listing of what was found followed by a proposed upgrade system layout. The scope of this project is to cover the following systems and subsystems and to explain how they all interact one with another. Finance & Accounting Identify and describe existing system: Riordan’s Manufacturing’s Accounting Services division is responsible for overseeing all financial processes within the company. Everything from AR, AP, payroll, General Ledger, purchasing, inventory controls, metrics, and employee payroll processing has been managed by team of well-qualified members who have demonstrated utmost professionalism for many years. In addition to these many time-consuming tasks, strict quarterly audits are also conducted throughout the company on a regular basis, most of which have met or exceeded industry standards. Therefore, the issue here the company faces is not one of quality, but rather one of efficiency. To date, many of the systems and procedures in place, while affective, are not as streamline or as consistent as they could be. Still others (e.g. audits), although effective, are taking weeks to complete when most similar operations today can finalize internal audits in a matter of days...
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...Introduction Riordan Manufacturing has placed a service request for all manufacturing locations to gain an overview about all existing software applications in Finance & Accounting, Sales & Marketing, Human Resources, Operations, Legal and Information Technology. All the listed areas within the organization are using various business systems of which each of them represents challenges. The organization is in an urgent need to identify what is needed to improve effectiveness in those areas. This summary is going to serve as a platform to implement systems in the various departments. Finance and Accounting Sales and Marketing The Sales and Marketing team at Riordan Manufacturing has both hard copy and electronic copies of paperwork from various ages. They also have many databases as well. The plan is to consolidate everything into a more convenient electronic storage system. The systems that the company plans to consolidate and track are: Historic Sales Files of Past Marketing Research, Marketing Plans and design awards Sales Database Production Records Profit and Loss Statements by Item and Group Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Anticipated Results Riordan also has a 2-year plan setup to reach the $50 Million in revenue mark. This is slated to occur by the 2006 year. This program is setup in three parts: Strategic sales objectives with corresponding financial goals and roll-out schedules Tactics by marketing mix, timing, and relationship to strategic sales objectives Customer...
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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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...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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...SAP FICO: SAP FICO Stands for FI (Financial Accounting) and CO (Controlling). SAP FICO is the important module of ERP and both FI and CO modules stores the financial transactions data. ◾SAP FI is the important module of all SAP implementations ◾SAP FI (Financial Accounting) is used for external reporting i.e. Balance sheet, Profit and Loss statements ◾SAP FICO Module integrates with various other SAP Modules such as MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales and Distribution), PP (Production Planning), PM (Plant Maintenance), and PS (Project Systems). ◾SAP FI (Financial Accounting) Module receives postings from various other modules such as Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Human Resource) through integration. ◾All accounting-relevant transactions which are made in Logistics (LO) are posted real-time to Financial Accounting by automatic account determination. This data can also be passed on to Controlling (CO). SAP FI Modules contains the following sub-modules ◾General Ledger accounting ◾Accounts Receivables ◾Accounts Payable ◾Asset Accounting ◾Bank Accounting ◾Consolidation ◾Special Purpose Ledger ◾Travel Management General Ledger Accounting: - The general ledger accounting is to provide a complete report for external and internal accounting i.e. Accounts, Journals, Monthly debits and Credit, Balance sheet and Recording all business transactions. Accounts Payable: - The Accounts Payable records and manages all accounting data related to vendors Accounts...
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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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...FUNCTIONS OF IT: 1. Technical support in SAP, RAMCO, DOTNET, JAVA, SQL 2. Functional support in SAP, RAMCO Before 2002, we have stand alones for supporting modules and in the year 2002, we came with RAMCO.RAMCO is an integrated software, and we have integration among each and every modules. This is the main reason, we came from stand alones to RAMCO. Upto 2009, we worked with RAMCO and later move on to SAP.The SAP ERP application is an integrated EnterpriseResourcePlanning (ERP) software manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors. It allows for open communication within and between all company functions. In today’s competitive market, individuals who possess essential business and technological skill enjoy a significant advantage over their peers. This is particularly true if your expertise includes SAP software. The SAP Certification provides that competitive edge. When you are sap certified, you join a distinguished community of experts recognized globally. Today more than 14,000 consultants and users worldwide are part of this exclusive community.In SAP we have the following modules: * Sales and Distribution (SD) * Production and Planning (PP) * Plant Maintenance (PM) * Material Management (MM) * Finance & Costing (FI CO) * Human Resources (HR) * Sap Basis * SALES AND DISTRIBUTION SAP SD refers to the sales and distribution module which is aimed...
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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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...information systems, CRM information systems, and marketing information systems are usually classified as: Functional area information systems 8. One impact of IT will be to decrease the numbers of managers employed in organizations. True 9. While information systems, such as transaction processing systems, generate more information for managers to process, other information systems, such as BI___, help them analyze this information to make better-informed decisions. 10. Telepresence systems can help make Global outsourcing a more popular choice for small and medium enterprises. 11. Which of the following is a useful, cost-effective, hands-on, and safe teaching tool in the medical field? Simulation environments. 12. Integrating its SAP ERP system with FlexNet has enabled L’Oreal to: Create a global, central IT system that supports all of the company’s factory processes, Bring factories online much more quickly, Maintain...
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