A Case on ERP Custom Add-On in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste See-Pui Ng
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Cost And Benefit Analysis ◽  
Integration Problems

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are complete and complex information systems that consist of firms’ business best practices. This study examines an ERP custom-made add-on/bolt-on system of a medium-sized computer memory producer with global business units around the world, and investigates implications of the customized system from the perspectives of system fit, user attitude and acceptance, and subsequent maintenance and upgrade costs. The authors adopted a rich descriptive case study method and conduct a cost and benefit analysis prediction of subsequent maintenance and upgrade costs on the system. The empirical data indicates that although developing an add-on may create integration problems and/or compatibility problems with the ERP system, in overall, the system users accept the system better as the add-on helps in improving their job performance. Also, even though having a custom development does create additional costs in this case study, this does not necessarily cost more than not having it. Instead, having an idiosyncratic system may actually transfer a lot of benefits to the company. This is the first empirical study showing why custom development is favored by SMEs. These results and implications can be valuable to IT managers and top management when making ERP customization decisions.

scholarly journals Blockchain, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Accounting Information Systems (AIS): Research on e-Procurement and System Integration

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6792
Author(s):  
Alessio Faccia ◽  
Pythagoras Petratos
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
Erp System

Accounting information systems (AISs), the core module of any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, are usually designed as centralised systems. Nowadays, the continuous development and applications of blockchain, or more broadly—distributed ledger technology (DLT), can change the architecture, overcome and improve some limitations of centralised systems, most notably security and privacy. An increasing number of authors are suggesting the application of blockchain technologies in management, accounting and ERPs. This paper aims to examine the emerging literature on this field, and an immediate result is that blockchain applications can have significant benefits. The paper’s innovative contribution and considerable objective are to examine if blockchain can be successfully integrated with AIS and ERPs. We find that blockchain can facilitate integration at multiple levels and better serve various purposes as auditing compliance. To demonstrate that, we analyse e-procurement systems and operations using case study research methodology. The findings suggest that DLT, decentralised finance (DeFI), and financial technology (FinTech) applications can facilitate integrating AISs and ERP systems and yield significant benefits for efficiency, productivity and security.

A Hybrid MCDM Approach for Solving the ERP System Selection Problem with Application to Steel Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Jafarnejad ◽  
Manoucher Ansari ◽  
Hossein Rahmany Youshanlouei ◽  
Mohammad Mood
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Entropy Technique ◽  
System Selection ◽  
Selection Of

Selecting a proper system of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a major challenge for enterprise managers. Heavy expenses of incorrect decisions in selection of ERP systems have made academics and managers consider this phase as highly important. Several research studies proposed different approaches to selecting the ERP and many case studies of organizational experiences have been published. However, there has been less regard for simultaneous use of the findings of academic studies and judgments of industrial experts or organization mangers for making the most appropriate choice. This study proposes a combined multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach through which both previous studies and judgments of industrial experts or organization managers would be integrated in order to select the proper ERP system. Having studied the literature comprehensively and conducted interviews with experts and managers, this approach will determine the most important criteria in ERP selection using Shannon entropy technique. Then, based on the judgments obtained from experts and using DEMATEL technique, these criteria will be classified into the two groups of “Cause” and “Effect” and the most appropriate choice will be selected using Fuzzy AHP technique. Finally, a case study is conducted to demonstrate and prove the applicability of the proposed approach.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ERP IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY CASE STUDY: ACCELERATED SAP VS DANTES & HASIBUAN METHODOLOGY

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hafizhuddin Hilman ◽  
Farisya Setiadi ◽  
Ika Sarika ◽  
Jarot Budiasto ◽  
Rakhmat Alfian
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
System Development ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Erp Implementation ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Implementation Methodology ◽  
Development Paradigm

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a concept of enterprise system that describe the integration of the whole process in the organization. Study in this field mostly about external development paradigm on information system development. So, issue in ERP is all about how to adopt it in the organization, not about the application development. This paper reviews two methodology on ERP system implementation, one is vendor perspective methodology and new generic perspective methodology. Comparation of both methodology is done in this study by using Roger Sessions’ metric. Result is the vendor perspective slightly superior than the new generic perspective methodology.

Insuring a Successful ERP Implementation

2011 ◽  
pp. 110-125
Author(s):  
Kimberly Furumo
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Erp Implementation ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
It Implementation

This chapter provides a case study of a failed enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation at a public university. Public universities, like other governmental agencies, may have more dif?culty implementing information technology (IT) because of limited resources, increased organizational bureaucracy, and extensive statutory reporting requirements. This chapter begins by identifying what an ERP system is, the dif?culties of implementing ERP systems, and the added dif?culties related to implementing technology in governmental organizations. In this case study analysis, upper managers, IT staff, and functional department end users were asked to identify why the project failed. Several lessons were learned including the importance of allocating adequate ?nancial resources to IT projects and managing the change process. As organizations move from the centralized legacy system environment which was prevalent in the last half of the 20th century, to the new distributed ERP environment, roles and responsibilities are changing. Readers are provided with practical suggestions that will help improve IT implementation success in governmental agencies.

A Post-Implementation Case Study and Review of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementations

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Muscatello ◽  
Diane H. Parente
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Erp Systems ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Study Methodology

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, if implemented correctly, have shown that a firm can gain strategic and tactical advantages over their competition who do not implement such systems. However, with failure rates estimated to be as high as 50% of all ERP implementations, companies can be negatively impacted by a poorly performing ERP system. The research on ERP has focused on events leading to the selection, evaluation, and implementation of the ERP system. The intent of this updated research effort is to capture new theories that can help practitioners successfully manage ERP systems by performing a post-ERP implementation examination of eight corporations and a pertinent research review. This chapter is based on a qualitative research design involving case-study methodology. The propositions derived from the case study form a broad set of considerations that influence the success of an ERP system.

The Myth of Integration

2011 ◽  
pp. 17-42
Author(s):  
Rosio Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Time Served ◽  
Organizational Reality

This research examines the implementation process of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and shows that implementation cannot be viewed solely in instrumental terms–that is, organizations do not simply select systems based on information requirements so that proper “fit” can be achieved. Instead, this research suggests that the activities of selecting and implementing a new ERP become the medium for (re-)constructing or (re-)constituting the organization’s values. Theorists have described such activities as a “mythmaking” process. A case study of an implementation at a large nonprofit organization is presented to demonstrate how myth-making served to construct an ERP system as an “integrated” system and at the same time served to elaborate existing organizational values. The myth functioned as a vehicle of consensual organizational reality, serving to align the acquisition of an ERP system with the organizational values, thereby garnering widespread support for a complex, expensive and relatively unknown technology.

A practical integrated solution into enterprise application: a large-scale quality control system development case study

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Hajipour ◽  
Hamidreza Amouzegar ◽  
Sajjad Jalali
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Functional Units

PurposeEnterprise resource planning (ERP) offers a streamlined system architecture to feed businesses with beneficial information in the current intense global competition. The primary concern of ERP is how to integrate different functional units to facilitate a unified flow of information. This paper aims at providing a non-trivial practice of integrating the quality control (QC) system into the core ERP processes of a real large-scaled case study.Design/methodology/approachTo satisfy the purpose of the current study, a large-scale steel making holding, inclusive of 27 business units being dispersed over a wide area, has been targeted. In our research methodology, a sample of four business units is selected as the pilot cases to be investigated at first. The output results of such investigations are further extended to the other units. In light of the investigation, the existing QC working conditions of the pilot cases are assessed through the As-Is model. The To-Be models are derived based on the best practices and the integration scope is then bordered.FindingsThe findings show that the integrated QC solution has enabled the following features: the smooth interconnection between QC and other functional units like purchase and manufacturing, the ease of generating real-time performance report of QC unit, the sack of tracing the quality of any available item in the system and the root-cause of defects, and the straightforwardness of the qualitative assessment of the suppliers.Research limitations/implicationsThere is almost no similar practice for designing a large-sized integrated system from scratch in the target region associated with our case study while the off-the-shelf products are prohibitively expensive.Practical implicationsThis paper includes implications for providing a standard practice on integrating a substantial module of ERP down to the smallest detail.Originality/valueThe value of the current paper is associated with fulfilling a critical research gap in the context of studying the QC integration into an enterprise solution. In fact, despite the importance of the QC module and its plethora of interconnection with other functional units, the literature review shows a centric lack of considering such integration in a real case study, particularly the large-scale one. Further, this paper works as a valuable study in the literature owing to not only focusing on the design and development of an integrated QC solution but also considering the deployment facet of such a practice.

Investing in Sustainability

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Beckers ◽  
Oliver Marz ◽  
Lutz M. Kolbe
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Meat Industry ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Environmental Information Processing

Given the increased stakeholder focus on sustainability, companies are facing the challenge of systematically collecting and processing sustainability information. Identifying sustainability indicators will become imperative for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), especially in the extremely segmented and highly specialized food industry – entailing opportunities, but also costs and risks. This article is a management approach and a basis for discussing the classification of sustainability reporting systems in existing Information Technology (IT) infrastructures from an economical point of view. Supported by a case study from the meat industry, the authors discuss to what extent sustainability information is reflected by an existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System, or which investments would be required for companies to facilitate the communication of sustainability data. Additionally and as a result, the article gives a schematic explanation how process changes can be evaluated economically by capturing and processing sustainability information, and thus how to decide in favor of or against a certain level of IT-based environmental information processing functionality.

ERP Systems in Hospitals

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernabé Escobar-Pérez ◽  
Tomás Escobar-Rodríguez ◽  
Pedro Monge-Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Erp Systems ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Independent Information ◽  
Systems And Control ◽  
Different Types ◽  
And Control

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems integrate information from different departments in one common database for an entire organization. They have demonstrated their efficacy in a number of companies of different types. However, a problem arises in organizations with highly differentiated cultural areas; often such areas have traditionally had independent information systems and control over the interests of their area, such as hospitals. This case study analyzes the process of an ERP system implementation in a hospital. The study’s objective is to identify, by means of this qualitative research technique, the principal technological objectives that were set in the process of implementation, which of those objectives were achieved, and the deficiencies that have subsequently become evident.

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