no one within the company had led an effort to replace the old system. One reason was likely due to the lack of direction for such a project, as the CIO had originally instructed each business unit to select their own application and timing of implementation. This type of decentralized decision-making was unfamiliar at Cisco, a company who thrived on standardization and centralization. As such, no one manager of a business unit was eager to be the first to go to the board for approval to invest a
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Enterprise Resource Planning - Facts, Benefits and Critical Elements for a Successful Implementation in Small Manufacturing Company Azhanorhisam Che Din 1. Introduction Imagine a world without technology, and imagine a company without Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP). Perhaps we can still survive without technology, but without ERP, a company may fail to remain competitive as they fail to respond quickly to new practices and procedures. Indeed, a company who quest for competitive advantage
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Enterprise Resource Planning - Facts, Benefits and Critical Elements for a Successful Implementation in Small Manufacturing Company Azhanorhisam Che Din 1. Introduction Imagine a world without technology, and imagine a company without Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP). Perhaps we can still survive without technology, but without ERP, a company may fail to remain competitive as they fail to respond quickly to new practices and procedures. Indeed, a company who quest for competitive advantage
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Case Study Kraft Foods Implementation of SAP Table of Contents INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …. 3 INNOVATION………………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………………3-4 PEOPLE……………….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......5 STRATEGY………………….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..5-7 SUCCESS………………………
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RO T E U L D GE · r & Fr a nci s G ro SAP implementation at Metalica: an organizational drama in two acts M ICH EL AVIT AL and BETTY VANDENBOSCH Department of Information Systems, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7235 USA This play attempts to reconstruct the social reality of key players at Metalica during the ® rst couple of years of SAP implementation. Rather than adopting one perspective about the SAP project, we provide the
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Comp3120 Assignment 1 SAP Implementation Review Yuan Tan, u4571547 V1.0 Final Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 1 Introduction 2 2 Business Context 2 2.1 Client Background 2 2.2 Operational Context 2 2.3 The Need for Change 3 2.4 Description of SAP 3 3 Business Investment Decision 3 3.1 The Case for SAP 3 3.2 Evaluation 4 4 Implementation 4 4.1 Approach & Rationale 4 4.2 Key Business Events 4 4.3 Key Implementation Events Affecting Performance 5 4.4 Status at Time of Go-Live
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JACG Consulting Group JACG Consulting Group SAP ERP Implementation SAP ERP Implementation By Jonathan Deroza, Audry Vazquez, Crystal Wheeler and George Sergi By Jonathan Deroza, Audry Vazquez, Crystal Wheeler and George Sergi Abstract We are working on the implementation of an ERP system from SAP for our coop with a total of 51 member owners. We are under a compelling opinion that the SAP R/3 software package gives us the best opportunity to achieve our objectives by reducing reporting
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not limited to: Baby Ruth, Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine, Nestle Toll House, Nescafe, Alpo and many more. With a staff growing over 16,000 Nestle USA has a total gross of $8 billion per year and is still increasing to this day. Why decide to use ERP implementation SAP? During the 1990’s, Nestle USA companies were operating as independents and were selling their vanilla product that was purchased from the same vendor 29 different prices. This became a concerning issue with the CIO and therefore something
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they need to consider on getting stated with the SAP was to define the cooperate standards for data, technical platforms and SAP implementation and tools. Also in what process areas would be implemented. • Second, they need it to create a team to implement PR2, they needed to consider the complexity due to the size of the plant and divided the implementation within multiple phases. 3. What implications and consequences does each of the options present? • The go live approach
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performance: A study of ERP, SCM, and CRM system implementations Kevin B. Hendricks a,1, Vinod R. Singhal b,*, Jeff K. Stratman b,2 b Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada N6A-3K7 College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 800 West Peachtree St., NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0520, United States Available online 23 March 2006 a Abstract This paper documents the effect of investments in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management
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