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Evolution
Critical Success factors
System Selection
Implementation
Random Summary
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In the 1970 this was introduced to maintaine inventory quantities.
What is Material requirements planning systems?
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A clear definition of goals, expectations, and deliverables.
What is clear understanding of strategic goals?
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Creat the vision.
What is the first step in system selection?
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What is the number of steps in the ERP implentation process?
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“ is business management software that allows an organization to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business.”
What is ERP
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The addition of techniques for capacity planning, Scheduling techniques and supplier scheduling to the MRP lead to its re-naming to this.
What is Closed-loop MRP?
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Preparing, training and educating the organization to adapt to changes in organizational culture, structure and operations.
What is organizational change management?
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1-Implement some overall business strategy for focusing on the information technology infrastructure. 2-Determine the particular features that are required to run a specific business.
What is two methods used for system selection?
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Software training will teach users the keystrokes and transaction required to run the system.
What is the purpose of attending system training?
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Time consuming, expensive, disruptive to company's culture, extensive training requirement, productivity dips, mishandled customer orders, and a damaged bottom line.
What is disadvantages to implementing an ERP system.
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The evolution of the MRP which incorporated financial accounting system, financial management systems, manufacturing and material management systems.
What is MRPII?
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A top priority in an ERP implementation that is required to function properly.
What is Data accuracy?
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Tangible: Better visibility of future requirements, improved material control, reduced costs, increased productivity, increased on-time deliveries, improved customer service and the elimenation of contradictory and redundant databases. Intangibles: Improved communication, reduced chaos/ confusion, higher moral.
What makes the investment justified?
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It is the first step. Which ensures system selection process has been completed and all factors critical ti implentation are in place.
What is "the review pre-implimentation process to date?"
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1-a unified enterprise view of the business that encompasses all the functions and departments 2-an enterprise database where all business transactions are entered, recorded, processed, monitored, and reported.
What are the two major benefits of ERP?
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The expansion to incorporating all resource planning, Product design, info warehousing, material planning, capacity planning, communication systems, HR , finance, project planning.
What is ERP?
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A successful implementation requirement for strong leadership committment and participation the lacking of which will lead to the enevidible failure of ERP implimentation.
What is commitment by top management?
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The final step in the selection process. Using all information collected to make a decision on implementation.
What is validate the justification?
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The most important step in ERP implementation that recognizes and clearly demenstrates the importance of the project to the organization.
What is celebrate in ERP?
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1-Poor planning and management(77%) 2-change in business goals during project(75%) 3-lack of business management support(73%)
What is the most common reason why ERP implementations fail?
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In the 1960 companies began to use "just-in-case" inventory and focused on more efficient ways to manage large volume of inventory.
What is inventory control?
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Measures like on-time delivery, gross profit margins, customer order-to-ship time, inventory turns, and vendor performance.
What is focused performance measures?
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The step to uncover major suprises to facilitate overall implementation.
What is pre-implementation pilot?
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Modules/products/ plans are brought on-line sequentially. After they are first made live they are refined and adjusted then the remaining are sequentially implemented.
What is phased approach?
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1-Strategy goals not clearly defined 2-Lack of top management commitment to system 3-poor implementation project management 4-lack of organizational commitment 5-poor implementation team 6-Inadequat education/training 7-data accuracy not ensured 8-Inadequate performance measures 9-multi-site issues 10-Technical difficulties leading to implentation failures
What is the ten categories of reasons ERP fail?