Our group made this presentation for our Info Mangement class, and we got an A*! hope it proves helpful....some of the material had been taken from slideshare itself
8. Enterprise Resource Planning “A process or approach which attempts to consolidate all of a company's departments and functions into a single computer system that services each department's specific needs.”
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11. ERP systems had a boost in sales in the ‘90s due to the Y2K problem
29. Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning The six main steps of an ERP project: Vendor Selection Business Strategy Formation Application Configuration Testing and End-user Acceptance Training Rollout
44. Calculating Return on Investment (ROI) Obtaining Support from Major Executives and Third Parties Major Business Process Reengineering (BPR) ERP Is Cost Prohibitive Scope Creep Difficulty of Training End Users ERP Challenges
54. Small non-government and small government – near to none. ERP’s used locally Jaffer Brothers, Mobilink, Shell, IBA, Tapal, Unilever, PIA, UBL, Civil Aviation, Siemens etc.
55. Interview with Jaffer Brothers ERP uses a single database. Did the database ever crash? And do you have any backups? “I have never seen one crash. But we have strong Disaster Recovery Management Plans in place in case of any disaster such as bomb blast, natural calamities, viruses and other network problems.” Are people resistant to the new ERP systems? How do you overcome that challenge? “People are reluctant to use new ERP solutions, which is a natural human behavior. Now for this we have two tools: Incentive (Push) approach Stick (Pull) approach”
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57. 50% of ERP software projects are terminated somewhere along the implementation process.
58. 75% are rated poor by the users (of those that are implemented and reached the operational phase)