Decision Making in the Evaluation, Selection and Implementation of ERP Systems
-Brief History on evolution of ERP from MRP
- Business Strategy, Business Processes, Different stakeholders are dominant
- ERP is not only a IT upgrade
- Decision making models are used now primarily to evaluate an ERP project to be applied.
- HSP case was investigated, in team selection, project implementation.
What You Need to Know about ERP software
- Brief information
- Drawbacks are mostly highly time taking conversion of legacy paper based systems
- Vendors are listed as oracle, peoplesoft, SAP
- Cost is hard to lower, mostly dependant on the size of the company
- With the help of the
Assessing the ERP Software
- Integration is important
- Sap is known for Compatibility
- Oracle is known for Supply Chain
- Peoplesoft is human resources applications
- There are still room for third party applications regarding business processes
- Companies may choose to integrate different addons to ease their operations such as schedule programs for production.
The ERP Purchase Decision
- Purchase decision depends on ERP characteristic and multipal organizational characteristics
- Second half of the 90’s have 3 criteria of IT for purchase decisions: reduce Information system costs, replace old systems, requirements not met
- Study is conducted as below:
- 35 ERP package capabilities are defined
- Competitive Goals
- Business Processes
- Architecture
- Legacy Systems (including Y2K)
- Buy vs. build
- Data Access
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