A case study of exploiting enterprise resource planning requirements Nan Niua; Mingzhou Jinb; Jing-Ru C. Chengc a Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA b Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA c Information Technology Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and ...

At a time when many companies are embarking on enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations, despite the belief among CEOs that approximately two-thirds of such systems are said to be failures, Texas Instruments’ (TI) multi-stakeholder ERP system offers many lessons for future adopters. A constancy of vision, providing visibility of the ERP system to external constituents via Web linkages...

The need for reforming public healthcare towards greater efficiency and measurable returns on investment has been felt by governments in many countries. In Ireland, this led to the PPARS project, which sought to implement SAP across all public healthcare sites. This project, however, was unsuccessful and led to a parliamentary inquiry. To understand why the PPARS project failed, we carried out ...

ERP systems are widely used by large enterprises for managing functional areas of the enterprise. However, recently ERP systems have also been introduced to the small enterprise market. ERP systems are now considered an important small enterprise management aid that may contribute to the sustainability and growth of the small enterprise. Although there are several acceptance factors that may im...

This paper focuses on the latest evolution of information systems for Supply Chain Management. In particular, starting from the observation that Advanced Planning Systems and Supply Chain Management Systems represent a real breakthrough in IT support to Production Planning and Control, the paper briefly shows how IT support has evolved over time both at company level and at supply chain level a...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are central to the Information Systems (IS) strategy of most international companies. With globalization, general managers put pressure on IS departments to implement such applications at a global level, in order to control and manage all the company processes at the different branches. Rolling out a global template in each of the different countries i...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are widely used by large corporations around the world. Recently universities have turned to ERP as a means of replacing existing management and administration computer systems. In this article we provide analysis of the rollout of an ERP system in one particular institution in the UK, the particular focus being on how the development, implementation a...

Scholarship addressing the social and organizational issues surrounding enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is blossoming. However, many of these studies produce unhelpful readings of the characteristics of ERP and its implications for organizations. The typical ‘ERP implementation case study’ has been given undue emphasis within Information Systems (IS) research. Often influenced by con...

In previous works [14], models and processes enabling to make interacting a project planning process with the system design one have been presented. Based on the idea that planning and design processes can be guided by consulting past experiences, an integrated case-based approach for coupled planning project and system design processes is proposed in this article. The proposal is firstly based...

The enterprise IT problem – it’s a stack of turtles. A hall of mirrors. We are seeking data about the data and process to manage the processing. This article attempts a brief overview on these problems of IT management, and what it would take to more effectively automate them. A particular goal is demonstrating that the problem is so complex that no one vendor can cover it all. A common framewo...