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Introduction Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are widely used by companies around the world. When implemented successfully, it has countless advantages and benefits such as improved productivity, decreased costs, increases efficiencies, and streamlined processes. Although ERP systems offer many advantages, if not implemented correctly, it can cost a company a lot of money as well as years of struggle. An ERP system must fit well with the businesses existing processes and operation. It…

Cases of Failure and Success of ERP Implementations By definition, ERP stands for Enterprise Resource planning- a concept that began to be adopted in the early 90’s as companies attempted to attain seamless management by integration and information sharing between their functions. This creates an efficiency that is difficult to attain using the tradition setup of having independent information management systems in every department (such as CRMs and MRPs). For a business to run successfully,…

A Summary of the Article, “Organizational Readiness to Adopt ERP: An Evaluation Model for Manufacturing SMEs” by Louis Raymond, Suzanne Rivard and Danie Jutras In the previous years, ERP had been only used by large organizations. However, this trend has changed because even SMEs are currently making use of ERP, despite the technology being complex and enormous for SMEs. It is because of this change of trend that Louis Raymond, Suzanne Rivard and Danie Jutras, in this article, are proposing and…

However, those results take time and it requires a decent amount of planning and management (Ware, 2003). An important step in implementation of an enterprise system is training of employees. For employees like Tom, who is in his mid 50’s, training on new technology might be very frustrating and disheartening. When the new system was introduced, Tom’s productivity flat-lined. This may be a sign that Tom…

Peter Senge’s book, The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization, marketed the idea of the “learning organization” and the concept that businesses should function as a set of connected systems within an ongoing learning environment (1990). Knowledge came from all people within the company, and everyone contributed, continuously. By following the five basic disciplines of “shared vision, mental models, personal mastery, team learning, and systems thinking” (Senge,…

NIIT Technologies is a leading global IT solutions organization-servicing customers across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Differentiated on the strength of its industry expertise, NIIT Technologies services clients in travel and transportation, banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing and media verticals, offering a range of services including Application Development and Maintenance, Infrastructure Management, and Business Process Management. Focused on Digital…

upstream and downstream of the supply chain. Companies have been able to reduce costs by properly managing their inventory, “Hewlett Packard achieved more than $130 million in total inventory savings” (supplychain) Companies that properly use an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system are able to have visibility of what inventory they have throughout their company. A popular ERP system companies use is Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP). This system has been difficult for companies to…

What do people think about when they hear the word politics? To further that, what do they think of when they hear the term polarization? Congress is in a constant battle between parties, and this, in turn, keeps us in an almost constant state of gridlock. Susan Page, Jim Douglas, Brian Resnick, and Norman Ornstein have all written articles explaining political polarization, civil discourse, or the solutions to these problems. In Susan Page’s article “Divided We Now Stand,” she mainly focuses on…

software does not only make accountants’ jobs easier; it also improves the efficiency of the accounting processes. Over the past decade, organizations all over the world have adopted enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Yet, there has been little research regarding the accounting benefits of implementing enterprise systems. The purpose of this research paper is to explain how accounting information systems, specifically SAP’s ERP software, benefit the accounting practice. Accounting…

Why Odoo? ( Selection Criteria) Odoo allows you to consolidate your applications, to centralize your data and to make your daily work easier, in a nice and unified interface. In terms of product, Odoo is going way beyond traditional ERP. What's usually interfaced with third party apps is fully native with Odoo CMS, E-Commerce, Point of Sale, and a Business Intelligence engine. Integrating your sales floor with inventory, accounting and manufacturing plant is one thing. But Odoo goes one step…