The Sucess of the German Company SAP AG and Enterprise Reource Planning

Upon his arrival in 1993, Pete Solvik, the company’s CIO at the time was objected to the idea of implementing ERP because he termed it as being “mega.’ Also, the CIO wanted the company to stick to its traditional standardization mechanism that required the use of universal database architecture. At the time, the company was using a UNIX based system that could not support the unexpected growth. The system could only efficiently handle financing, manufacturing, and order entry functions (Austin, Nolan, & Cotteller,

This paper is an attempt to understand why TS Group chose JDE over SAP, SYSPRO, and Microsoft Dynamics. Within this paper all four ERP products (JDE, SAP, SYSPRO and Microsoft Dynamics) are evaluated for their strengths and weaknesses. From this evaluation a hypothesis is made as to why TS Group preferred the JDE ERP system. Considering any consultants available for these products, an argument is presented as to which constituents (stakeholders) had the most influence on this decision.

Brief review of ERP has shown that in early versions, the system focused on functions of offices only and customer’s data were supposed to be managed by the company’s human resources. However, the recent model of ERP 2 included integrated functions of personnel and customer data, thereby, allowing to relate the information within the company more conveniently. Successfully installed ERP system might include forecasting options with improved efficiency and productivity. Accordingly, the company betters its customer relationship management and customer

The main SAP’s core business offer was an enterprise resource planning system shortly called ERP system. When they manage to successfully implement the ERP system it linked all fields of a company including human resources, management, manufacturing, financial systems and distribution with suppliers and customers. The companies that used their system have felt and “drastic decline in inventory, breakthrough reductions in working capital, abundant information about customer wants and

In order to compete in the industry with other competitors effectively, organisations must seek to achieve competitive advantages over them and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can play an important part in helping organisations to gain and sustain competitive edge.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are one of the most current technologies that many companies adapted. Enterprise Resource Planning is defined as a software package that combines activities happening in different divisions into a single computer system. The ERP systems allow transparency in the organization and easy access of data, the software packages consist of several modules which are Finance, Sales, Human Resource and production, delivering an incorporation of transferable- based information management (Esteve and Pastor, 1999). The ERP systems is considered to be the most important management tool in the business industry because it producers real-time data and it increases level of production (Esteve and Pastor, 2001).

ERP systems are more demanding and complex when compared to the other systems. Therefore management should allocate enough budgets for the project to hire the consultants and to train the employees.

There are also a number of ERP suppliers with the help of which the organizations and companies could make their systems effective and manageable. Examples of top ERP system suppliers include Oracle, Microsoft and SAP. These systems are beneficial to all, from small scaled business to medium and large scale organizations. One of the most important things which are to be taken into account for the ERP systems is that it is applied to application suites which are outside of the manufacturing market. The hospitals, large organizations and general business can have the license of the broad ranging integrated software suites which are then marketed to the ERP solutions. It is to be noted that the companies are getting more involved into the use of portals for the sake of effective recruitment. Similarly the internal experiences of the employees are also being enhanced with the use of ERP systems and other strategies in order to reduce the turnover rate.

Beyond email, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and others have further integrated processes within business to improve efficiencies and workflow between different business segments. These tools allow businesses the ability to manage the business in its entirety. These systems collect data from business disciplines including supply chain, sales, accounting, operations and human relations. That data is then analyzed and the organization can gain insight as to how to improve their processes and increase efficiencies and productivity.

Enterprise resource planning ( ERP) system is a new software management technology that strives to integrate the many business functions of an organisation through the unified software, thus enhancing/ improving productivity and overall performance of the business. It is the main product provided successfully by SAP globally to many different business industries. This is because on average most ERP systems have many different types of modules to accommodate individual sectors of a business, such as; human resources management module, accounting & financial modules, manufacturing modules, distribution modules and many more ( Chang et al. 2008 ). For an example in the R/3 ERP system provided by SAP, a few ERP functions can be derived, such as; to facilitate the processing of raw data into decision making information, security & storage of the raw data and information of businesses, enables forecasting of the business plan, assisting the business supply chain processes and many more ( Jones 1996). In terms of the accounting perspective the ERP system can be argued to have been a positive impact from the first function of processing of raw

ERP (Enterprise resource planning) is a software that allows companies to automate and integrate many of their business processes, share a common database and business practices throughout the enterprise, and produce information in real time. The objective of ERP system is that it supports the streaming and distribution of geographically scattered enterprise information across all the functional units of a business house. It provides the business management executives with a comprehensive overview of the complete business process, which in turn influences their decisions in a productive way. Many big companies have adopted ERP into

ERP has become a potential solution which the companies are aiming for to improve their business process performances. There are various challenges that are encountered by the organizations in terms of people, process and systems oriented issues in the usage of disparate systems. In aim of increasing their business operations, the companies are eying at ERP as potential solutions. In this research paper the focus is upon understanding how ERP can be resourceful and few case outlooks has been discussed on the successful implementation and the potential benefits the organizations could gain.

For years, small businesses have been looking for solutions to monitor the overall system of operation. Inevitably, if a business is developing and growing, it would reach a point where the actual information technology (IT) infrastructure becomes obsolete. For Forrest Burnson (2015), when a business attends that point, the first move is to renovate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. ERP supports management in monitoring the critical operations as sales, accounting, human resources, supply chain management, customer relationship management and more.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is one the latest technologies being adopted by major companies all around the world. ERP aims to integrate the business operations and simplifying them in the process. It also aims to keep the data updated for all departments of the organisation. The scope of SAP ERP is unlimited and the software is in great demand in the market today.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of the widely used software for managing and integrating the whole business. It gives a real time view of business and uses a database in the centre to manage and update the entire information flow in an organization. An ERP focuses on three main aspects as its name suggests they are: Enterprise, Resource and Planning. It concentrates on integrating all the departments in an organization which is considered to be the most difficult part in an ERP implementation process.