erp (yasir sayeed)

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Technology Institute

YASIR SAYEED

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y Definition.

y ERP Legacy.

y ERPs elements and subsystems.y How can ERP system improve a business system?!

y What does drive ERP approach?!

y ERP implementation.

y ERP vendors.

y ERP pros & cons.

y Summary.


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y An ERP is a company-wide computer softwaresystem, and functions of a business from shared

data stores.y An ERP system has a service-oriented architecture

with MODULARhardware and software units and"services" that communicate on a local area

network.y Enterprise Resource Planning software, or ERP,

doesn't live up to its acronym.


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y The advent of E-Business and the need to leveragemultiple sources of information within an

enterprise.y Back-office enterprise software has its roots in the

1960s and 1970s.

y MRP, short for Material Requirements Planning,

was developed in the early 1960s at IBM.y MRP II, the next generation of manufacturing

software.

y ERP, the enhancement of these before


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y A single software program that serves the needs ofpeople in finance along with human resources and inthe warehouse.

y Integrated software program that runs off a singledatabase so that the various departments can moreeasily share information and communicate with eachother.

y No lounging (Imagine a customer order TRIP out ofan ERP System).

y Interconnectivity (for example, to get into thewarehouse's computer system).


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y Businessy CustomerSatisfaction.

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BusinessD

evelopment - new areas, products, services.y Ability to face competition.

y Efficient processes required to push the company to top gear.

y ITy Present Software does not meetbusiness needs.

y Legacy systems difficult to maintain, Y2K Problem , Eurocurrency.

y Obsolete hardware/softwaredifficult to maintain.


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y Producing ERP software systems are typically complex andusually impose significant changes on staff work practices.

y It is desirable and highly advised to hire outside consultants who

are professionally trained to implement these systems.y Three types of services that are provided by of an ERP vendor orof third-party consulting companies, these firms typicallyprovide three areas of professional services: consulting,customization and support.

y ERP systems are modular, so they don't all need be implemented

at once. It can be divided into various stages, or phase-ins.y The length of time to implement an ERP system depends on the

size of the business, the number of modules, the extent ofcustomization, the scope of the change and the willingness ofthe customer to take ownership for the project.


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y The typical project is about 14 months and requiresaround 150 consultants, a small project (e.g., acompany of less than 100 staff) may be planned and

delivered within 3-9 months; however, a large, multi-site or multi-country implementation may take years.y Main success factor of an ERP implementation, Data

Migration, which comes almost as the last phaseimplementation & requires.

1. Identifying the data to be migrated2. Determining the timing of data migration3. Generating the data templates4. Deciding on migration related setups5. Deciding on data archiving


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y It is therefore crucial that organizations perform athorough business process analysis before selecting an ERPvendor and setting off on the implementation track.

y Neglecting to map current business processes prior tostarting ERP implementation is a main reason for failure ofERP projects.

y Configuring an ERP system is largely a matter of balancingthe way you want the system to work with the way thesystem lets you work.

y Configuration Tables A configuration table enables acompany to tailor a particular aspect of the system to theway it chooses to do business.


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