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CHAPTER 10. ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING AND COLLABORATION SYSTEMS. CHAPTER TEN OVERVIEW. SECTION 10.1 - ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING Enterprise Resource Planning Core and Extended ERP Components Core ERP Components Extended ERP Components ERP Vendor Overview ERP Benefits and Risks (Cost)
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CHAPTER 10 ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING AND COLLABORATION SYSTEMS
CHAPTER TEN OVERVIEW • SECTION 10.1 - ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING • Enterprise Resource Planning • Core and Extended ERP Components • Core ERP Components • Extended ERP Components • ERP Vendor Overview • ERP Benefits and Risks (Cost) • The Connected Corporation – Integrating SCM, CRM, and ERP • The Future of ERP
CHAPTER TEN OVERVIEW • SECTION 10.2 – COLLABORATION SYSTEMS • Teams, Partnerships, and Alliances • Collaboration Systems • Knowledge Management • Knowledge Management Systems • Content Management Systems • Workflow Management Systems • Groupware Systems • Collaboration Trends
SECTION 10.1 ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
LEARNING OUTCOMES • Compare core enterprise resource planning components and extended enterprise resource planning components • Describe the three primary components found in core enterprise resource planning • Describe the four primary components found in extended enterprise resource planning systems • Explain the business value of integrating supply chain management, customer relationship management, and enterprise resource planning systems
ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING • Enterprise resource planning – integrates all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system (or integrated set of IT systems) so that employees can make enterprisewide decisions by viewing enterprisewide information on all business operations
CORE AND EXTENDED ERP COMPONENTS • Core ERP component – traditional components included in most ERP systems and they primarily focus on internal operations • Extended ERP component – extra components that meet the organizational needs not covered by the core components and primarily focus on external operations
CORE ERP COMPONENTS • Three most common core ERP components • Accounting and finance • Production and materials management • Human resource
Accounting and Finance ERP Components • Accounting and finance ERP component – manages accounting data and financial processes within the enterprise with functions such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, and asset management
Production and Materials Management ERP Components • Production and materials management ERP component – handles the various aspects of production planning and execution such as demand forecasting, production scheduling, job cost accounting, and quality control
Human Resource ERP Component • Human resource ERP component – tracks employee information including payroll, benefits, compensation, performance assessment, and assumes compliance with the legal requirements of multiple jurisdictions and tax authorities
EXTENDED ERP COMPONENTS • Extended ERP components include: • Business intelligence • Customer relationship management • Supply chain management • E-business
E-Business Components • E-business components include e-logistics and e-procurement • E-logistics – manages the transportation and storage of goods • E-procurement – the business-to-business (B2B) purchase and sale of supplies and services over the Internet
ERP VENDOR OVERVIEW • SAP boasts 20,000 installations and 10 million users worldwide • ERP solutions are growing because: • ERP is a logical solution to the mess of incompatible applications that had sprung up in most businesses • ERP addresses the need for global information sharing and reporting • ERP is used to avoid the pain and expense of fixing legacy systems
ERP Vendor Overview • SCM and CRM market overviews
ERP SOFTWARE • Successful ERP projects share 3 attributes • Overall fit • Off the rack • Off the rack and tailored to fit • Custom made • Proper business analysis • Successful companies spend up to 10 percent of the project budget on a business analysis • Solid implementation plans • A plan is needed to monitor the quality, objectives, and timelines
ERP BENEFITS AND RISKS • Common ERP benefits • Integrate financial information • Integrate customer order information • Standardize and speed up manufacturing processes • Reduce inventory • Standardize human resource information
THE CONNECTED CORPORATION • SCM, CRM, and ERP are the backbone of e-business • Integration of these applications is the key to success for many companies • Integration allows the unlocking of information to make it available to any user, anywhere, anytime
THE CONNECTED CORPORATION • Many companies purchase modules from an ERP vendor, an SCM vendor, and a CRM vendor and must integrate the different modules together • Middleware – several different types of software which sit in the middle of and provide connectivity between two or more software applications • Enterprise application integration (EAI) middleware – packages together commonly used functionality which reduced the time necessary to develop solutions that integrate applications from multiple vendors
THE CONNECTED CORPORATION • General audience and purpose of SCM, CRM and ERP
THE CONNECTED CORPORATION • Data points where SCM, CRM, and ERP integrate
THE CONNECTED CORPORATION • At the heart of all ERP systems is a database, when a user enters or updates information in one module, it is immediately and automatically updated throughout the entire system
THE CONNECTED CORPORATION • ERP systems automate business processes
THE FUTURE OF ERP • Lines between SCM, CRM, and ERP will continue to blur • Internet – continue to help organizations integrate data and process across functional departments • Interface – customizable employee browsers • Wireless technology – support a mobile workforce
OPENING CASE QUESTIONSCampus ERP • How could core ERP components help improve business operations at your college? • How could extended ERP components help improve business operations at your college? • How can integrating SCM, CRM, and ERP help improve business operations at your college? • Review the different components in Figure 10.14. Which component would you recommend your college implement if it decided to purchase an ERP component?
SECTION 10.2 COLLABORATION SYSTEMS
LEARNING OUTCOMES • Identify the different ways in which companies collaborate using technology • Compare the different categories of collaboration technologies • Define the fundamental concepts of a knowledge management system
LEARNING OUTCOMES • Provide an examples of a content management system along with its business purpose • Evaluate the advantages of using a workflow management system • Explain how groupware can benefit a business
TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES • Organizations create and use teams, partnerships, and alliances to: • Undertake new initiatives • Address both minor and major problems • Capitalize on significant opportunities • Organizations create teams, partnerships, and alliances both internally with employees and externally with other organizations
TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES • Collaboration system – supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information
TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES • Organizations form alliances and partnerships with other organizations based on their core competency • Core competency – an organization’s key strength, a business function that it does better than any of its competitors • Core competency strategy – organization chooses to focus specifically on its core competency and forms partnerships with other organizations to handle nonstrategic business processes
TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES • Information technology can make a business partnership easier to establish and manage • Information partnership – occurs when two or more organizations cooperate by integrating their IT systems, thereby providing customers with the best of what each can offer • The Internet has dramatically increased the ease and availability for IT-enabled organizational alliances and partnerships
COLLABORATION SYSTEMS • Collaboration solves specific business tasks such as telecommuting, online meetings, deploying applications, and remote project and sales management • Collaboration system – an IT-based set of tools that supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information
COLLABORATION SYSTEMS • Two categories of collaboration • Unstructured collaboration (information collaboration) - includes document exchange, shared whiteboards, discussion forums, and e-mail • Structured collaboration (process collaboration) - involves shared participation in business processes such as workflow in which knowledge is hardcoded as rules
COLLABORATION SYSTEMS • Collaborative business functions
COLLABORATION SYSTEMS • Collaboration systems include: • Knowledge management systems • Content management systems • Workflow management systems • Groupware systems
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT • Knowledge management (KM) –involves capturing, classifying, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing information assets in a way that provides context for effective decisions and actions • Knowledge management system (KMS) –supports the capturing and use of an organization’s “know-how”
Explicit and Tacit Knowledge • Intellectual and knowledge-based assets fall into two categories • Explicit knowledge – consists of anything that can be documented, archived, and codified, often with the help of IT • Tacit knowledge - knowledge contained in people’s heads
Explicit and Tacit Knowledge • The following are two best practices for transferring or recreating tacit knowledge • Shadowing – less experienced staff observe more experienced staff to learn how their more experienced counterparts approach their work • Joint problem solving – a novice and expert work together on a project
Explicit and Tacit Knowledge • Reasons why organizations launch knowledge management programs
KM Technologies • Knowledge management systems include: • Knowledge repositories (databases) • Expertise tools • E-learning applications • Discussion and chat technologies • Search and data mining tools
KM and Social Networking • Finding out how information flows through an organization • Social networking analysis (SNA) – a process of mapping a group’s contacts (whether personal or professional) to identify who knows whom and who works with whom • SNA provides a clear picture of how employees and divisions work together and can help identify key experts
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS • Content management system (CMS) – provides tools to manage the creation, storage, editing, and publication of information in a collaborative environment • CMS marketplace includes: • Document management system (DMS) • Digital asset management system (DAM) • Web content management system (WCM)
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS • Content management system vendor overview
WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS • Work activities can be performed in series or in parallel that involves people and automated computer systems • Workflow – defines all the steps or business rules, from beginning to end, required for a business process • Workflow management system – facilitates the automation and management of business processes and controls the movement of work through the business process
WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS • Messaging-based workflow system – sends work assignments through an e-mail system • Database-based workflow system – stores documents in a central location and automatically asks the team members to access the document when it is their turn to edit the document