Analysis of minimum size requirements of organizations for the implementation of enterprise resource planning systems E-Book

Nejc Martin Jakopin

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2003

Beschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: very good, Indiana University (Strategic Management), course: Strategic Management / ERP/SAP Systems: Supply Chain Management, language: English, abstract: The research will focus on finding benchmark data on the required size of companies that is necessary for a full SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation. The analysis will look into benefits and costs of the implementation and long term prospects generated by the system. Practical examples will be used to illustrate the main findings, both from a positive as well as a negative viewpoint. [...]

Leseprobe

Table of Content

List of Figures and Tables ,,

Abbreviations ,,

2. 1 Structure of incurred costs

2. 2 Analysis of minimum requirements for successful rollout

2. 2. 2 Software

2. 2. 3 Consulting

2. 2. 4 Implementation Team

2. 2. 5 Training

2. 3 Benchmark data for minimum expenses

2. 4 On-going expenses from ERP systems

3. 1 Cost savings

3. 1. 1 Productivity

3. 1. 2 Human Resources

3. 1. 3 IT maintenance

3. 2 Customer satisfaction

3. 2. 1 Service aspects

3. 2. 2 Quality aspects

3. 3 Aggregation of benefits in relation to organization size

Page 1

Page 4

-DNRSLQQ²².DVVHQQ².LUVWW

Abstract

The research will focus on finding benchmark data on the required size of companies that is necessary for a full SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation. The analysis will look into benefits and costs of the implementation and long term prospects generated by the system. Practical examples will be used to illustrate the main findings, both from a positive as well as a negative viewpoint.

1 Introduction

Although SAP has widened its product range to accommodate different organizational sizes, including small and medium range businesses,1we find that a full fledged ERP system implementation has to go along certain requirements. The centralunderlying assumptionfor this research will therefore be theimplementation of an extensive ERP system that handles close to all operational tasks along the value chain.Consequently we are not talking about the minimum implementation of one module or a pre-packaged standardized software solution (e.g. an online shop or accounting software) that can easily be achieved by businesses of all sizes.