Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. 1 Enterprise systems integrate business activities across the organization and with business partners Chapter 7 - Enhancing Business Processes Using Enterprise Information Systems
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Enterprise systems integrate business activities across the organization and
with business partners
Chapter 7 - Enhancing Business Processes Using Enterprise Information Systems
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Chapter 7 Learning Objectives
Core Business Processes and Organizational Value Chains• Explain core business processes that are common in organizations.
Enterprise Systems• Describe what enterprise systems are and how they have evolved.
Enterprise Resource Planning• Describe enterprise resource planning systems and how they help to improve internal
business processes.
The Formula for Enterprise System Success• Understand and utilize the keys to successfully implementing enterprise systems.
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Core Business Processes and Organizational Value Chains
Core Business Processes and Organizational Value ChainsExplain core business processes that are common in organizations.
Enterprise SystemsDescribe what enterprise systems are and how they have evolved.
Enterprise Resource PlanningDescribe enterprise resource planning systems and how they help to improve internal business processes.
The Formula for Enterprise System SuccessUnderstand and utilize the keys to successfully implementing enterprise systems.
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Scenario
• You work for a mid-sized manufacturer of supplies for white boards.
• Working in groups of 3…each of you will take responsibility for:– Inbound Logistics/Procurement– Operations/Manufacturing– Outbound logistics/Order Fulfillment
• What information do you need to make your team efficient and effective?
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Scenario (cont.)
• What types of information needs to flow from one team to the next to make the organization efficient and effective?
• How do we facilitate this flow of information from one system to the next?
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Scenario (cont.)
• What type of information flows between teams within your organization & what type of information flows between your organization and your business partners (suppliers & customers)?
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Core Business Processes
• Traditional business functions:– Marketing and sales– Supply chain management– Accounting and finance– Human resources
• Not distinct independent silos, but instead highly interrelated
• Business processes cross boundaries of business functions.
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Break the class up into 4 groups
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Order-to-Cash Process
• The processes associated with selling a product or service
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Procure-to-Pay Process
• The processes associated with procuring goods from external vendors
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Make-to-Stock / Make-to-Order Process
• The processes associated with producing goods
Who has worked at a place that used Make-to-Stock?
Who has worked at a place that used Make-to-Order?
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Supply Chain
• Core business processes enable the creation of supply chains.
• Resembles a river– Start at source– Move
downstream
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Value Chain
• Value Chain—The set of business activities that add value to the end product.
• Information flows through a set of business activities.– Core activities—functional areas that process inputs and
produce outputs.– Support activities—enable core activities to take place.
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Value Chain Framework
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Externally Focused Applications—Value System
• Coordination of organizational value chains• Information Flows in a Value System
– Upstream information flow—information received from another company– Downstream information flow—information produced by a company and sent
to another organization
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Enterprise Systems
Core Business Processes and Organizational Value ChainsExplain core business processes that are common in organizations.
Enterprise SystemsDescribe what enterprise systems are and how they have evolved.
Enterprise Resource PlanningDescribe enterprise resource planning systems and how they help to improve internal business processes.
The Formula for Enterprise System SuccessUnderstand and utilize the keys to successfully implementing enterprise systems.
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The Rise of Enterprise Systems
• Stand-alone applications – Not designed to communicate with other system– Variety of computing hardware platforms – Enable departments to conduct daily business activities
– Not helpful for other areas in the firm• Proprietary systems
– From vendors– Not designed to share with other vendors’ systems– Problem of knitting together (hodgepodge portfolio of
discordant proprietary applications)– Lack of integration
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Legacy Systems
• Each department has its own system.
Infrastructure specific
Inefficient processes
Potential for inaccuracies
Too many “rocks in the river”
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Enterprise System Approach
• Integrated suite of business applications for virtually every department, process, and industry
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ERP Challenges
• What are some of the challenges with implementing an ERP?
• Why would a company want to do this?
• Who might resist? Why?
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Enterprise Resource Planning
• Who are the largest and most influential ERP vendors?
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Supporting Business Processes
• Internally focused systems
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Supporting Business Processes
• Externally focused systems (interorganizational systems)
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Modules of Enterprise Systems
• Each module in an enterprise system replaces a stand-alone legacy system.
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Vanilla Versus Customized Software
• Vanilla version– This version contains features and modules that an
enterprise system comes with out of the box.– Certain processes might not be supported.
• Customization– This version contains additional software or changes to
vanilla version.– It always needs to be updated with new versions of vanilla.
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Capabilities of SAP’s ERP System
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Best Practices-Based Software
• Most ERP vendors build best practices into their ERP systems.– Identify business processes in need of change– Future updates are smoother if businesses change their
business processes to fit with ERP systems.
• Is following the best practices always the best strategy?– If companies have competitive advantage from unique
business processes, forcing best practices may actually hurt.
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Enterprise Resource Planning
Core Business Processes and Organizational Value ChainsExplain core business processes that are common in organizations.
Enterprise SystemsDescribe what enterprise systems are and how they have evolved.
Enterprise Resource PlanningDescribe enterprise resource planning systems and how they help to improve internal business processes.
The Formula for Enterprise System SuccessUnderstand and utilize the keys to successfully implementing enterprise systems.
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
• Enterprise Resource Planning—Applications that integrate business activities across departmental boundaries.
• ERP evolved during the 1990s from material/manufacturing requirements planning packages.
• Emphasis has since shifted from “resources” and “planning” to “enterprise.”
• Integrate legacy information on a company-wide basis
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Integrating Data to Integrate Applications
• Central information repository
– ERP replaces stand-alone applications
– Modules based on• Common database• Similar application
interfaces
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Example ERP Screen
• An ERP system can provide employees with relevant, up-to-date information.
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Core and Extended ERP Components
• Core components—support primary internal activities.• Extended components—support primary external activities.
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ERP Core Components
• Financial Management – accounting, financial reporting, performance
management, corporate governance• Operations Management
– simplify, standardize, and automate business processes for inbound/outbound logistics, product development, manufacturing, sales and service
• Human Resource Management – employee recruitment, assignment tracking,
performance reviews, payroll, regulatory requirements
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Human Resources Management
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Order-to-Cash
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Procure-to-Pay
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Production
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ERP Installation
• Configuration of the ERP systems is performed during any ERP implementation.
• System must be configured to reflect business processes and associated business rules.
• Organizations have to make countless decisions on how to configure thousands of database tables to fit the business’s needs.
• Organizations hire experienced business analysts or outside consultants to assist with implementation.
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ERP Limitations
• ERP falls short in communicating across organizational boundaries.
• They tend to be not well suited for managing value system activities.
• Other systems can work with ERP to provide these capabilities.
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The Formula for Enterprise System Success
Core Business Processes and Organizational Value ChainsExplain core business processes that are common in organizations.
Enterprise SystemsDescribe what enterprise systems are and how they have evolved.
Enterprise Resource PlanningDescribe enterprise resource planning systems and how they help to improve internal business processes.
The Formula for Enterprise System SuccessUnderstand and utilize the keys to successfully implementing enterprise systems.
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The Formula for Enterprise System Success
1. Secure executive sponsorship . – Most failures are due to lack of top-level management support.
2. Get help from outside experts.– Consultants are specifically trained.– Implementation tends to happen faster.
3. Thoroughly train users.– Training is the most overlooked, underestimated, and poorly
budgeted expense.– Training can prevent dissatisfaction.
4. Take a multidisciplinary approach to implementations.– Include end users from all functional areas in the
implementation.5. Initiate evolving the ERP Architecture.