Erp Research Paper - Synopsis (1)
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MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
CASE STUDY ON
ELIZABETH VISITS GPC’S FRENCH SUBSIDIARY
DEEPINTI BARAPATRE
E.NO.10216603911
USMS
GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY
DWARKA
AUGUST 2012
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INTRODUCTION
This paper presents the evolution of the ERP system since time and how firms have been
employing it for generating revenues and providing better solutions to customers .It describesthe
stages of ERP implementations, the obstacles that firms encountered in generating benefits
from the system, advantages, limitations and some critical success factors associated with it and points to be noted during the implementation of ERP system.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Before the ERP era, manual data entry in files used to be a nightmare for the departments.
Updating of data, entry of new details was cumbersome and often lead to redundancy of data.
With the advent of ERP which provided for a single platform for unified database proved to be a
landmark in the history of file management system.It is universally recognized by large and
small-to medium-size enterprises (SME) that the capability of providing the right information at
the right time brings tremendous rewards to organizations in a global competitive world of
complex business practices. It all began with five IBM engineers from Manheim, Germany who
worked day and nights and sacrificed the much awaited holidays to develop the next big thing in
the history of software-ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING. As said by ” Kumar & Van
Hillsgersberg, 2000 “ERP systems are configurable information systems packages that integrate
information and information-based processes within and across functional areas in an
organization. „ “One database, one application and a unified interface across the entire
enterprise” (Tadjer, 1998)‟-defines all.
The year to mark was 1972, the softwares for each department were different and
communication and integration of data was a tedious task. And then entered SAP which was
going to change the lives. They called the company Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung
(“System Analysis and Program Development”). They had their first customer that year
(probably the shortest sales cycle for SAP ever!!), ICI, which is still an SAP customer, 35 years
later. In 1973, SAP was ahead of everyone else in the integrated business applications industry,
releasing R/1. And in 1973 ther released r/2 , the next version. In 1975, Laswon software,
founded by Richard Lawson, Bill Lawson, and John Cerullo, begins building their own ERP
solution. Meanwhile Jack Thompson, Dan Gregory, and Ed McVaney, three accounting firm
employees started J.D.Edwards aiming at small to medium enterprises, in 1977, five years after r/1.in 1977 Larry Ellison started his own company software development laboratories(SDL, now
ORACLE!) which proved to change the entire industry. Next year a Dutch carpenter and
business consultant, gifted a computer is place of his earning starts to develop a software for his
own customers. This effort then led to Baan hiring a no of programmers to start up a business of
customized softwares for SME‟s. In 1977 oracle who had already set its base in the business of
developing softwares to handle data started earning rich. In 1989 it sold its first manufacturing
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solution. Another company that started off late but still gained recognition and traced by many
was PeopleSoft, founded in 1987 by Walnut Creek, California. The 80‟s and 90‟s positioned
SAP as the clear leader by releasing its latest one-SAP R/3…the latest till date. J.D.Edwards was
earning riches generating annual growth of 54% during 1977-1994.but all was not going to be
well, soon ERP was taken as being expensive , requiring too many resources for its
maintainance. Companies could not afford ERP and that led to the booming market experiencing
huge losses. And finally the year 2000 changed the scenario. Microsoft entered the market with
smaller and cheaper versions of ERP specially made for SME‟s.
OBJECTIVES:
The purpose of this article is to provide further insights into the adoption of enterpriseresource
planning (ERP) systems, its critical success factors and the impacts on organisational
performance. It aims atchallenging encountered by the ERP system and the solutions it offersthrough its products.
METHOD:
The method employed in this research is more of secondary data usage from books, scholarly
articles, blogs and publications .