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5 Getting More Results from Enterprise Systems
... The literature is, however, divided whether widespread utilization of ERP systems promotes or hinders organizational agility. One body of literature argues that complex and organization wide IT systems like enterprise systems enable an organization to rapidly sense changing business needs and respond via quick adaptations to business processes (Anderson et al., 2003;Davenport et al., 2005;Sambamurthy et al., 2003). ...
... Additionally, the result supports that within such an ERP assimilation model, existing theoretical frameworks based on resource-based, capabilities-based, knowledge-based and risk-based views can explain a net positive connection between enterprise systems and organizational agility. It also supports prior research in the literature (Davenport et al., 2005;Sambamurthy et al., 2003) that information systems, in general, provide capabilities which have a direct effect on organizational agility. The result extends this prior research to enterprise systems specifically, implying that the theoretical underpinnings justifying this relationship continue to be valid, even at the boundary line conditions exemplified by enterprise systems, as a class of information systems with extremely high levels of technology integration in terms of both breadth of process scope and depth of data integration. ...
... Scholarly journals, perhaps influenced solely by known theoretical perspectives, are more inclined towards suggesting that enterprise systems may promote organizational agility (Davenport et al., 2005). On the other hand, practitioner journals have been more inclined towards suggesting that enterprise systems may hinder organizational agility (Rettig, 2007). ...
... Companies try to systematize processes for numerous significant motives. Inside a firm, standardization can simplify communications regarding business operations, assist easy transfer through process restrictions, and enable comparative measures of performance (Davenport, 2005) [5] . Many scholars think that standardized business processes are better to outsource and that there are experimental clues which indicates the fact that business process standardization decreases the risks of business process ( [9,27,36] . ...
... Companies try to systematize processes for numerous significant motives. Inside a firm, standardization can simplify communications regarding business operations, assist easy transfer through process restrictions, and enable comparative measures of performance (Davenport, 2005) [5] . Many scholars think that standardized business processes are better to outsource and that there are experimental clues which indicates the fact that business process standardization decreases the risks of business process ( [9,27,36] . ...
IT systems, particularly enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, have been considered to be the necessary carriers of information and the most significant driver of competitive advantage. In the past twenty years, ERP systems have become more and more popular for all firms. This study tries to discuss the concept of ERP business process in brief. It clarifies ERP system business process attributes for better assessment of the system. A wide-ranging review is used of preceding literature on ERP systems. These attributes as the prospective pointer of ERP systems implementation are proposed next. The study provides new understandings of ERP system by means of four attributes-integration business process, standardization business process, routinization business process and centralization business process-to better comprehend the impact and function of ERP system.
... The practical need is to continually refine and improve key business processes (Bendoly, Jacobs, 2004). In order to maximize and enhance the value of their enterprise applications, organizations should focus three value drivers: integrate, optimize, informate (Davenport et al, 2005). ...
The new wave of BPM (Business Process Management) is not Business Process Reenginering, enterprise application integration, workflow management or another packaged application – it's the synthesis and extension of all these technologies and techniques into a unified whole. This unified whole becomes a new foundation upon which the enterprise is built, an enterprise more in tune with the true nature of business processes and their management. In a competitive economy, where margins continue to narrow and the pressure to respond to market shifts is greater than ever, the business rules approach is a great paradigm shift toward the process-managed enterprise and a significant enabler for reinventing ERP and the whole enterprise applications system.
... c o m / l o c a t e / j s s performance by using a simulation study. Although the process is not applied to a real-world case study, the implication is still of significant value in the sense that the cost of purchasing and implementing large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has increased dramatically in recent years (Davenport et al., 2005). It often takes several years to complete an ERP installation, and the financial results, in terms of increased efficiencies, are sometimes elusive. ...
The material requirement planning (MRP) process is crucial when software packages, like enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, are used in the production planning for manufacturing enterprises to ensure that appropriate quantities of raw materials and subassemblies are provided at the right time. Whereas little attention has been paid to the architectural aspects of MRP process in academic studies, in practice, reports are often made of its time consuming characteristics due to intensive interactions with databases and difficulty in real time processing. This paper proposes a grid enabled MRP process in a distributed database environment and demonstrates the performance improvement of the proposed process by a simulation study.
We investigate firm decisions to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technology and how adoption is sourced: by purchasing commercial readymade software, by developing or customizing solutions in‐house, or both. Using a cross‐sectional data set of 3143 firms from across Europe, we examine the extent to which sourcing strategies exhibit complementarity or substitution. We find that adoption of AI using readymade software as a sourcing strategy is now increasingly commonplace, but differs across industrial sectors. Further, complementarities between sourcing strategies are common across sectors, though with some differences in strength and some exceptions. Our results show that sourcing strategies play an important role in shaping AI adoption decisions among firms.
Commonly provided by ERP vendors, master production scheduling (MPS) systems often strive to meet the needs of a large user base while limiting software functionality. Subsequently, business process reengineering becomes the means for firms to adapt to MPS software packages. This article develops a flexible approach for MPS delivery as an alternative to packaged software. The article examines the general case of open system architecture to deliver a specific master scheduling model to end-users. The open system approach fulfills a goal to standardize and speed the process of modeling in practice by creating a supply network for mathematical models that is searchable across the Internet with precision. The value lies on quickly putting state-of-the-art modeling in the hands of many users with no local computer implementation other than downloading an Excel spreadsheet.
Commonly provided by ERP vendors, master production scheduling (MPS) systems often strive to meet the needs of a large user base while limiting software functionality. Subsequently, business process reengineering becomes the means for firms to adapt to MPS software packages. This article develops a flexible approach for MPS delivery as an alternative to packaged software. The article examines the general case of open system architecture to deliver a specific master scheduling model to end-users. The open system approach fulfills a goal to standardize and speed the process of modeling in practice by creating a supply network for mathematical models that is searchable across the Internet with precision. The value lies on quickly putting state-of-the-art modeling in the hands of many users with no local computer implementation other than downloading an Excel spreadsheet.
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