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Understanding ERP

Posted on 20 October 2011 by Steve Bassaw

Years ago I worked as a junior procurement officer at a medium sized Canadian manufacturing company. Within my first year, our production scheduler resigned and to my surprise, I was promoted to her position. I was terrified because I didn't have a background in operations management and I didn't understand its mysterious jargon. Acronyms like MPS, MRP, BOM, and the like were foreign to me. I also did not have a good grasp of our ERP system (SYSPRO).
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Topics: Business software, ERP systems, Education, Training and Certification

Taking Ownership of ERP Implementations

Posted on 12 October 2011 by Meryl Malcomess

Thinking about ERPDespite the fact that ERP solutions are intended to improve business performance quickly and efficiently, through the provision of critical information, they generally do not have a good track record. In his research paper Causes influencing the effectiveness of the post-implementation ERP system(subscription required), CS Yu came to the conclusion that 40% of all ERP implementations or extensions perform below expectations and 20% are eventually scrapped as complete failures. The latter figure could even be as high as 50%, depending on how ‘failure’ is defined.

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Topics: ERP Implementation, ERP systems

 

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