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Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning. Enterprise Resource Planning - a software system that integrates core business areas such as manufacturing, distribution, financials and human resources. Example: A warehouse in Singapore enters a customer order

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Enterprise Resource Planning

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  1. Enterprise Resource Planning • Enterprise Resource Planning - a software system that integrates core business areas such as manufacturing, distribution, financials and human resources. • Example: A warehouse in Singapore enters a customer order • data automatically flows to other areas of the company. • It would flow to the financial and accounting people in New York • Automatically update accounts receivable.

  2. Enterprise Resource Planning • The order would also flow to the manufacturing operations in Europe instructing them to make another component. • Inventory levels would automatically be reduced in the warehouse and an order would be placed to replenish inventory.

  3. Benefits of ERP • One common system - less duplication, more efficient • Customer focus - better customer service • Open communications among business partners • Adherence to standard business practices

  4. Benefits of ERP • Y2K compliant • Removes need for in-house development • Good reporting capabilities • Support for multiple currencies and languages.

  5. Disadvantages of ERP • High cost • Forced change of processes • Very complex software • Lack of trained people • Not Internet-ready

  6. ERP Vendors • SAP - Systems Applications Products in Data Processing 29% market share - Honda, IBM, Bank of Canada, P & G • BAAN - Dutch - 5% - Russell Stover Candy, Mercedez Benz, Boeing, Nortel • Peoplesoft - California - 6% - NBA, Adidas, Anderson Consulting, Hilton Hotels, NYNEX

  7. ERP Vendors • Oracle - California - 10% - USPS, CBS, Nike, Kodak, Toronto Dominion Bank • J.D. Edwards - Colorado - 7% - Harley Davidson, Saab Automobile, BellSouth Cellular Corporation, Holiday Inns, Fox Television Stations

  8. Success Stories • Autodesk (computer aided design software maker) • Reduced delivery time from two weeks to less than 24 hours • IBM Storage Systems Division • Reduced time to re-price – 5 days to 5 minutes • Time to ship a replacement part – 22 to 3 days • Time to complete a credit check – 20 minutes to 3 seconds

  9. Success Stories • Fujitsu Microelectronics • Reduced the cycle time for filling orders – from 18 days to 1.5 days • Time to close financial books – from 8 to 4 days

  10. Horror Stories • FoxMeyer Drug – software helped drive the company into bankruptcy • Dell computer – software will not fit its decentralized management model • Applied Materials – overwhelmed by the organizational changes involved • Dow Chemicals – spent seven years and 500 million dollars on R/2 – now starting again with R/3 • Hershey’s – missed timely deliveries

  11. Reasons for failure • Software logic and the company strategy may not match! • Examples – p. 125 of Devenport article

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