ERP and SAP - Chitu Okoli

COMM 226 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and SAP Chitu Okoli Associate Professor in Business Technology Management John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montréal

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Challenges that ERP tries to resolve • • • •

Delayed data sharing Disconnected processes Insufficient information for managers Information silos within departments of an organization • Information silos within organizations--supply chain challenges

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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI): A partial solution • Helps databases talk to each other, but: – Still multiple databases – Separate processes

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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI): A partial solution • EAI helps to resolve: – Delayed data sharing: all databases can share data easily – Insufficient information for managers: greater visibility of data – Information silos within departments of an organization: all databases can talk to each other easily

• But EAI does not resolve: – Disconnected processes • some of the greatest benefits could potentially lie here

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What Are the Benefits of an ERP System? • Addresses all of the major challenges: – – – – –

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Delayed data sharing Disconnected processes Insufficient information for managers Information silos within departments of an organization Information silos within organizations—supply chain challenges

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What Are the Challenges of Implementing an ERP System?

• Decision-Making Challenges

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What Are the Challenges of Implementing an ERP System? • People Challenges

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What Are the Challenges of Implementing an ERP System?

• ERP Upgrades

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What Are the Fundamentals of a Procurement Process? • Linking the Fundamentals of the Procurement Process with Inbound Logistics in the Value Chain

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CBI procurement process before and after SAP

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Benefits of switching to SAP for the CBI procurement process

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What New IS IT Will Affect the Procurement Process by 2024?

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Radio Frequency ID (RFID)

http://youtu.be/gEQJxNDSKAE 13

Security and privacy issues with RFID • RFID tags are still readable even after leaving the supply chain • RFID tags are difficult to remove • RFID tags can be read without your knowledge • RFID tags with unique serial numbers could be used to identify individuals – E.g. the serial number can be linked to an individual credit card number

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Sources: Technovelgy.com: Problems With RFID Image: RFID Journal

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The replicator

http://youtu.be/eEez9lNh8Uw 16

3-D printing (the real thing)

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The dark side of 3-D printing • • • • • • • • • •

3D printers are energy hogs Unhealthy air emissions Reliance on plastics Intellectual property and licensing deals Gun control loopholes Responsibility of manufacturers Bioprinting ethics and regulation Possibility of 3D printed drugs National security risks Safety of items that come into contact with food

• Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-dark-side-of-3dprinting-10-things-to-watch/ 18

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Sources • Most of the slides are adapted from COMM 226 Business Technology Management by David M. Kroenke, Andrew Gemino, Peter Tingling, and Earl H. McKinney, Jr. 2nd Custom Edition for Concordia University (2014) published by Pearson Canada. ISBN 13: 978-1-269-96956-7 • Other sources are noted on the slides themselves

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