...Pizza Hut Data analysis Introduction Earlier chapters have set the stage for carrying out of this research. This chapter builds on the previous ones by reporting the results of the data analysis. The primary data collected through interviews and questionnaire is presented in graphs along with analysis and findings. From these analysis researchers will be able to proceed towards conclusion and recommendation. Qualitative Data analysis This part of chapter will analyse the interviews conducted with pizza hut management. Strategy Importance To find out and analyse strategy planning and its importance researcher asked questions from Pizza hut management ‘What was the strategic planning behind ERP (MICROS)’ and ‘What were the main objectives behind ERP (MICROS), and Is Pizza hut as an organisation able to achieve those objectives?’. In reply to these questions Operational support manager replied. Strategic plan behind ERP system was to be a market leader in fast food market and to provide excellent customer service through ERP implementation. According to Operational support manager and area managers of pizza hut the objectives behind ERP were to run the business more efficiently, better product quality and customer service, enhanced financial procedures through real time figures and effective marketing through customer information. Hammer & champy (1993) presented theory of business process reengineering, in their theory they explained that very basic rethinking and essential...
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...departments. Until June 2006 the company relied on separate PCs with endusers designed sheets to facilitate the work duties. The company CEO decided to go digital. In July 2006, El-alamein went digital. It established several infrastructural components such as Computer Network, a backup system and security policy. Attractive and Informative website has become a major need for many companies and that made El-alamein company to develop a website (www.elalamein.net). The website helps many functional Departments including marketing, HR, sales and customer services. The company reviewed different Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and chose the Oracle E-Business Suite as the best ERP to meet the company’s information and business requirements. The modules chosen under the Oracle E-Business Suit was Oracle Financials, Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Sales and marketing, Order-management and Procurement. An implantation vendor was selected to start the project and the modules chosen to help automate the business processes were Oracle Financials, inventory management, manufacturing , sales and marketing, order-management, and procurement. To ensure ERP implementation success El-alamein focused on the following business process...
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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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...spent on remodeling the Club IT is paying off and their information management system lacking in resources, they are in need of an analysis to determine how to have their information system as appealing as their club. To better understand how to implement an information system for Club IT, one must know Club IT clientele and the club’s mission. The mission statement of Club IT is “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT” (Axia College Material, 2009). Club IT has a desire to build a community that meets on a regular basis in an exciting atmosphere that offers music, dancing, and refreshments. Ruben and Lisa are targeting a community that enjoys tech o, electronic, hip-hop, and live music (Axia College Material, 2009). Club IT offers music through live band every Friday and Saturday night with a live DJ on Monday through Thursday. Sunday is the only day the club is not opened. Goals and Strategy For Club IT to accomplish their goal of developing regular community gatherings. For this to happen, Club IT needs a way to keep their clientele or friends informed on what is happening at the club, menu items, merchandise, and if there are upcoming events. The club already has a basic website that shows basic information about the club such as...
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...Migrating to a Standardized ERP System in a Cloud Computing Environment at ABC Corporation Barbara Ferneyhough Managerial Applications of Information Technology – IS535 (ON) Section B DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management December 11, 2011 Course Project Example used with permission from student Migrating to a Standardized ERP System in a Cloud Computing Environment at ABC Corporation Proposal Topic This proposal discusses the use of multiple financial systems throughout ABC Corporation (ABC), the impact that this has upon effective corporate operations and proposes a solution. ABC maintains four different ERP systems (BaaN, PeopleSoft, SAP and Deltek) and a financial consolidation system (Hyperion) across all of its divisions leading to increased IT costs as individual systems must be procured, maintained, and manipulated to provide financial data in a format that is meaningful to the home office for reporting and strategic management purposes. Not only is this a potentially inefficient use of technology, the use of a non-standardized system impacts the ability of management to obtain, manipulate and interpret critical data elements for strategic planning purposes and regular performance monitoring. Problem The business problem to be solved is how to improve operational efficiencies, reduce IT costs, and improve insight into the financial management aspects of the company for improved strategic planning and performance monitoring. Approach ...
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...Interactive Session: management El-alamein for printing and packaging goes digital Founded in 1921, El-Alamein is one of the leading companies in the Middle East in the printing and packaging industry. With head-quarters (HQ) located in Alexandria, El-Alamein occupies an area of 40,000 square meters and employs more than 700 employees. El-Alamein has managed to obtain international quality certificates including: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO OHSAS 18001, and BRC/IOP. The company has two main Strategic Business Units (SBUs): offset factory as well as a flexible factory. “Since 1921, El-Alamein Co. led the revolution of the Printing and Packaging industry in Egypt. El-Alamein is the approved supplier to the biggest international companies in the fast food industry. The company produces paper cups for cold and hot drinks as well as ice-cream packages with their different shapes and sizes. The company also produces eight-cornered carton boxes to pack sandwiches and burgers, in addition to different shapes and sizes of fried potatoes boxes. The company produces wrapping paper for sandwiches and fast food, and produces printed multi-layered paper bags by using automatic heat sealing for the bottom and side-seams.” The company faces many challenges: there isn't a reliable infrastructure, network, servers, storage or PCs; there isn't an IT/IS department in the organization chart; competitors have taken serious steps in becoming digitally enabled, and information loss has taken...
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...Activity 9.5 – Research Paper Rena Davenport Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University January 22, 2015 In reviewing the SAP ERP solutions, my initial thought was how much easier to understand and follow their website is than Oracle’s website. If I were to be shopping for a solution I would probably choose SAP just because I could navigate their website in an easy-to-follow manner. Please save your file as 'LastName_M9_Research' (example 'Smith_M9_Research.docx') Better execute your business strategies – with our enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution Run the foundation ERP software that large enterprises and midsize companies trust to manage their business. Achieve real-time insight and enable operational excellence and innovation for the business processes you need – today and tomorrow. * Consolidate business data to avoid duplication of effort * Streamline business processes with consistent, reliable information and real-time transparency * Quickly respond to customer demand with efficient, fast, and flexible processes * Outperform the competition with improved financial insights and results * Innovate without disruption by updating and activating specific business functions on demand * Rely on a foundation that supports best practices for more than 25 different Industries Procure to Pay (ERP) Maximize cost savings with support for your end-to-end procurement and logistics processes – from self-service requisitioning to invoicing...
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...Term Paper Information Technology Strategic Plan CIS 500: Information Systems for Decision-Making Information Technology Strategic Plan Established in 1984, in Chattanooga, TN, 1st Step Counseling started as a privately owned counseling practice, primarily serving the local courts by providing first time DUI offenders with DUI education service and assessment, as mandated by their court ordered probation. Over the next ten years 1st Step Counseling has expanded its’ services to deliver out-come focused Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder counseling. By 1995, 1st Step Counseling had a patient census of approximately 300 patients, requiring the employ of an Internal Medicine Specialist, a Psychiatrist, a Nurse Practitioner, three Licensed Practical Nurses, two Clinical Psychologist, six Licensed Professional Counselors and two Clinical Social Workers, plus eight Administrative and Support staff. Later the same year, 1st Step Counseling opened a second office in Farragut, south of Knoxville, TN. Since this first expansion, 1st Step Counseling has established itself as a prominent Mental Healthcare Service provider, with 14 locations in or near metropolitan areas, throughout the Southeast. In January 2014, the Board of Directors decided to expand to the national market. To begin steering the company toward the national stage, the Directors and Senior Executives rebrand the company’s identity by changing the name to Access-Link Behavioral Healthcare (BHC)...
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...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 end-user project participation by involving more employees than just senior management in the decision, analysis and implementation. Question3: What value did the IT/IS /investments add to El-Alamein? After two years of implementing various technologies...
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...Study 1: Campus ERP 1. Was the move from 20-year-old legacy systems at Stanford necessarily a good idea? Why or why not? It is a good idea because all the data throughout the new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) will be integrate in all departments and functions throughout the staff and students in Stanford, into a single IT system (or integrated set of IT systems) so that employees and students can make decisions based on the view of the enterprise-wide information in all business operations, semesters subjects, marks, human resources payments and many more. Here in this case all have to make changes according to the system the employees and the students too. 2. In your opinion, did Stanford spend too much time consulting the ERP vendors (Oracle and PeopleSoft) and not enough time consulting their own staff? I think Stanford did spend too much time for vendors, the management paid attention to installing the new ERP administration systems as PeopleSoft HR, Oracle and others but they did not involve the users (employees and students) in selecting the software changing requirements. They have not got the sufficient resources, they do not provide enough training and proper training for their staff, and they have poor quality of communication and cultural differences. Stanford does not implement all of this because of its tight budget and of the desire to be the first who will implement this ERP not paying attention on the following problems. 3. Can ERP systems work in...
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...possessed exceptional expertise in operating the eatery, the eatery’s nontechnological business operations remain today in the same manner as they did in 1952. Consequently, the eatery had incurred a progressive decline of five years of clientele. The eatery possesses no computers: the eatery’s orders take place by hand, or maintain a Web site: thus, consequently, the marketing occurred via the eatery’s clientele. The eatery’s promotion coupons occurred via pamphlets and newspaper clip outs, the eatery’s payroll, and inventory tracking took place on an annotation notepad. Thus, consequently, a reengineering modernization project analysis and stratagem of The Broadway Café that will enable the eatery merge into the eBusiness Twenty-First Century ensues, in an attempt to ensure my grandfather’s bequest to me arises as a windfall. PART 1: PORTER’S FIVE-FORCES: ANALYSIS In order to enable the assemblage of an avenue...
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...technologies like the Blackberries, camera phones, PDA’s, and other wireless communication devices. Ruben wants to set up a web site to handle the ticket sales that he now sells on the phone or by person. Currently, Club IT has a dial up connection which makes it hard to do research for the club much less run a business. There are the resources, customers, and the supply chain to define and discuss how to resolve these issues, finally, a project development method to do a proper analysis of Club IT. Club IT’s Resources, Customers, and Supply chain Enterprise resource Planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), and the customer relationship management (CRM) are part of a system to resolve Club IT’s technological and management problems. To look at them as a whole will help see the problem as a whole then later we will break them down individually. Club IT has a website that sells items like baseball caps, t-shirts, mugs and, shot glasses if you are a member you get a 10% discount. Ruben and Lisa can have a website that the customers and, the staff can interact with each other, have a community of their own. Club IT could be gathering information about their customers to see what they like in the way of food, drinks and music. The club needs to do something about the ordering and distributors; they need more on the menu. A nice B2B e-commerce system could help this problem. The system would allow the...
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...Resources Planning (ERP). Perhaps we can still survive without technology, but without ERP, a company may fail to remain competitive as they fail to respond quickly to new practices and procedures. Indeed, a company who quest for competitive advantage in this era of intense competition where business entities compete for innovation, expanding customer’s expectation and internationalization of markets, a company regardless of their size must have a reliable ERP to support them. ERP has proven to be an effective tool for competitive advantage as ERP help to delivery products of the highest quality on time, as quickly as possible and at the best price. Davenport (1998, p.121) suggests that “ERP appear to be a dream comes true as these software promise the seamless integration of the information flowing through a company. Markus et al. (2000) defines ERP as commercial software package that enable the integration of transaction oriented data and business process throughout an organization. The purpose of this paper is to discuss facts about ERP, its benefits and the critical success factors in ERP implementation especially for small manufacturing companies, which is in this paper, will sometime refer to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The remainder of this paper is organises as follows. In Section 2, facts about ERP software is presents. The ERP and its relations to small manufacturing company are discusses in Section 3. Section 4 outlines the benefits of ERP, mainly for SMEs...
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...product line and more sales representative, and smaller, more specialty-dedicated suppliers. The success and future of the company depends heavily on a clear and definable vision of the company, along with specific goals, objectives, and needs. Its current objective “to differentiate itself by its dedication to service, ease of ordering and knowledgeable, friendly operators, as well as its ability to provide one-stop shopping” (pg 5) is not being achieved. The most obvious need at hand is to integrate the technology in effort to improve the company’s ability to sense and respond to customer desires to increase distribution of the “perfect order” to every customer in every instance. The fundamental question is not whether or not to invest in ERP/CMS software, but instead how to allocate their resources to best realize a positive return on their investment. Current options include whether to purchase the “Bolt-on” software products to correct shortcomings of existing system, or a new CRM system (and from who-- Clarify or another company) and how extensive of an implementation (a completely new system or just a supplement component). Moore Medical’s biggest opportunity –84%– lies in optimizing distribution of the perfect order identified by adequate stock of all items at the closest distribution center to be shipped and delivered on time and damage-free. Moore Medical’s current system cannot forecast demand because it is reactive to market conditions instead of predicting future demand...
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...Harnessing the power of business intelligence: A proposed use case for small, MEDIUM AND MICRO businesses Introduction The subject matter of this research project is based off of a need to know what tools are available for small businesses who wish to compete with their bigger and more financially equipped counterparts. As someone who has always had a great interest in being an entrepreneur, I believe this is as great a medium as any other to delve into the topic of affordable business intelligence solutions for small businesses. In a recent study of small and medium businesses, it was found that they collect a lot of data but are face with the problem of having too much information and a great majority of them did not know how to make best use of it. In essence, they know the importance of collecting data but do not comprehend how to make sense of the data. (Aggarwal, McCabe, & Aggarwal, 2011) The study went on to show that 25% of the small and medium size businesses that took part in the study reported that one of their biggest challenges is getting better insights into the data they collect. But as Todd R. Weiss so put it, it’s also getting much harder for small businesses to find excuses for why they cannot compete with larger competitors on a regional, national and global scale because of the accessibility of software and services (specifically BI tools) via “the cloud”. (Weiss, 2012) This paper will briefly discuss what business intelligence is; why it is so important;...
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