Enterprise Resource Planning Modules Research Articles

Digital Transformation: An Emphasis Analysis of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Modules in Higher Education

Industry, and educational institutions in particular, regard digital transformation as a critical information technology. This is due to the fact that educational institutions are required to effectively respond to a multitude of changes, including those associated with digital transformation. This study aims to empirically analyze to the challenges associated with the process of digital transformation, this study examined pertinent scholarly publications, books, and journals. The utilization of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in this research endeavors to assess ERP system modules that may be implemented in academic establishments to facilitate the digital transformation process while increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of information resource and technology management. In pursuit of global educational excellence and benchmarks. ERP modules implemented in educational institutions include Competency and Certificate Management, Career Service Management, Student Information Management, Financial and Accounting Management, Asset Management, and E-Learning Management. It is anticipated that the implementation of an ERP system in academic institutions will improve visibility, adaptability, and the capacity to strategize, plan, and operate more effectively. It is crucial to note, however, that many factors must be considered when implementing ERP system modules in academic institutions, including elevated costs, adequate resources, and stakeholder support.

A decision support framework for sustainable production planning of paper recycling systems

The paper waste generation is exacerbated due to the wide variety of weights and sizes specified by customers. Hence, sustainable production planning of paper recycling systems has become critical to reduce potential waste while addressing customers’ demands. This study aims to develop a decision-support framework starting with a mathematical programming model to address the cutting stock problem focusing on make-to-stock and make-to-order production systems simultaneously. The proposed model generates various feasible production plans for a paper recycling system considering practical assumptions and recorded operational data from the Enterprise Resource Planning modules. The developed framework also integrates the fuzzy best-worst method and double normalization-based multiple aggregation technique to consider sustainability-related evaluation criteria (e.g., human resource usage and energy consumption) to prioritize the obtained production plans in an uncertain environment. Furthermore, a neural network-based multiple regression model is utilized to estimate the sales amount for each production plan to calculate the income as an evaluation criterion. The outputs of this study introduce the most sustainable and efficient production plans to minimize waste and satisfy customers’ demands.

A Mobile Application for Learning Enterprise Resource Planning

With the growing demand for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) literate graduates in the professional world, ERP education is an imperative aspect that has been integrated into universities. However, for many higher education institutions, the affordability of a commercial ERP system for courses is not practical. On the other hand, students struggle to grasp the concept of business processes and enterprise systems. They have difficulties in fully understanding the interrelationship of various ERP modules, especially new ERP features such as Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA), in meeting the holistic organisational objectives. This struggle was reinforced by the COVID -19 pandemic, which forced courses to be moved from face-to-face to online platforms. In this paper, a gamified mobile learning approach for ERP learning has been proposed and implemented to enhance ERP knowledge retention, improve the availability of ERP learning material, and expose new ERP features. The mobile application, named LearnES, consists of the application of gamification and adapted learning components based on various learning models. A research model with hypotheses was developed to test the outcomes of the solution, and the application was evaluated through a mixed survey-based approach. Following the evaluation, participants manifested a favourable attitude towards learning ERP through the mobile application.

Benford's law for integrity tests of high-volume databases: a case study of internal audit in a state-owned enterprise

PurposeThe technical feasibility of using Benford's law to assist internal auditors in reviewing the integrity of high-volume data sets is analysed. This study explores whether Benford's distribution applies to the set of numbers represented by the quantity of records (size) that comprise the different tables that make up a state-owned enterprise's (SOE) enterprise resource planning (ERP) relational database. The use of Benford's law streamlines the search for possible abnormalities within the ERP system's data set, increasing the ability of the internal audit functions (IAFs) to detect anomalies within the database. In the SOEs of emerging economies, where groups compete for power and resources, internal auditors are better off employing analytical tests to discharge their duties without getting involved in power struggles.Design/methodology/approachRecords of eight databases of an SOE in Argentina are used to analyse the number of records of each table in periods of three to 12 years. The case develops step-by-step Benford's law application to test each ERP module records using Chi-squared (χ²) and mean absolute deviation (MAD) goodness-of-fit tests.FindingsBenford's law is an adequate tool for performing integrity tests of high-volume databases. A minimum of 350 tables within each database are required for the MAD test to be effective; this threshold is higher than the 67 reported by earlier researches. Robust results are obtained for the complete ERP system and for large modules; modules with less than 350 tables show low conformity with Benford's law.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is not about detecting fraud; it aims to help internal auditors red flag databases that will need further attention, making the most out of available limited resources in SOEs. The contribution is a simple, cheap and useful quantitative tool that can be employed by internal auditors in emerging economies to perform the first scan of the data contained in relational databases.Practical implicationsThis paper provides a tool to test whether large amounts of data behave as expected, and if not, they can be pinpointed for future investigation. It offers tests and explanations on the tool's application so that internal auditors of SOEs in emerging economies can use it, particularly those that face divergent expectations from antagonist powerful interest groups.Originality/valueThis study demonstrates that even in the context of limited information technology tools available for internal auditors, there are simple and inexpensive tests to review the integrity of high-volume databases. It also extends the literature on high-volume database integrity tests and our knowledge of the IAF in Civil law countries, particularly emerging economies in Latin America.

Multi‐criteria decision‐making approach for modular enterprise resource planning sorting problems

AbstractImplementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is currently recognized as a best practice with wide associated possibilities of business improvement for companies. Integrating these kinds of systems with business processes in the most efficient way requires to endeavour as much as possible simplifications for final users, which can be pursued by optimizing crucial software characteristics. The present article proposes a novel Multi‐Criteria Decision‐Making (MCDM) approach to deal with such an issue. Specifically, the ELECTRE (ELimination Et Choix Traduisant la REalité) TRI technique is suggested to assign ERP modules into predefined and ordered categories according to maintainability and usability, which are useful drivers in evaluating which module of an ERP software should be enhanced with priority. The results prove to have whole beneficial impact on system performance with relation to a case study: improvement evaluations will be identified based on the classes the ERP modules are assigned to by the method.

Implementation of the Odoo Point of Sale ERP Module at Gordio Store

Gordio Store is a UMKM that is engaged in developing clothing convection in Tanah Abang Market, Central Jakarta. Operational business processes This business is still done manually and not yet computerized, so the transfer of information about sales is done manually.The ongoing sales business process at Gordio Store has become inefficient and the owner has experienced some difficulties, especially information on sales and sales transactions last week or month.Therefore, it is necessary to apply Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology with the aim of resolving these problems. The selection of software used is Odoo software, because it is considered open source and is easy to use and can also keep pace with changes and is integrated as a whole to meet the company's most complex operational needs. From the implementation results show that the Odoo application can overcome the problem of sales data information using the Point of Sale module in Gordio Store. It is expected that with this ERP system business operations can be more effective and efficient so that it is expected to provide more benefits for business owners.

Development of Extended Enterprise Resource Planning Module for Higher Education of Pakistan: A Case Study of Higher Education

Development of Extended Enterprise Resource Planning Module for Higher Education of Pakistan: A Case Study of Higher Education

Teaching Methods Used for ERP – Focus on Gamification

A considerable share of recent upgrades in the business sector have been devoted to the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to manage business processes, due to which the demand for ERP professionals has been increasing. In line with this, ERP modules have been incorporated in university teaching curricula. However, traditional methods of teaching do not really work the same way as ERP teaching as it demands more hands-on practice to handle an ERP system. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was carried out to identify the different types of teaching methods used for ERP and the related challenges. A more focused area of the SLR was to analyses the relevance and implications of gamification in ERP teaching.

The Impact of ERP System on Academic Performance: A Case Study Approach

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a very powerful solution to many academic and non-academic institutions in case it has been implemented and used effectively. Otherwise, the system will interrupt several business processes. This research paper investigates the impact of ERP system on academic performance at Sohar University. A survey questionnaire is distributed to several academic stakeholders to investigate the impact of ERP system on academic performance within the University context. A total of 110 questionnaires was received from the key academic stakeholders to examine the relationship between the three core ERP modules i.e. the students’ information module, the financial module, and human resource module. The research outcomes indicate that there is a relationship between the three modules and the academic performance. However, only students’ information module and financial management module demonstrate a significant impact on academic performance, though the human resource module shows no impact on the academic performance at Sohar University. This study is a single case study approach, which might limit the findings to be generalized on other education institutes, but it gives a chance to other researchers to do multiple case studies in other Universities in the region.

The Effect of Procedure Change, TQM and ERP Implementation to Company Performance on Manufacturing Industries

The initial changes in standard procedures made by manufacturing companies when implementing ISO 9000: 2008 system (SNI / National Indonesia Standard) are establishing procedures related to the system in each department of the companies. These changes are related to the standard operating procedures, work instructions, and forms. The second stage of changes happens during the implementation of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in which the companies have to integrate various departments into one integrated data system. These processes of changes in the companies are called business process redesign or re-engineering (BPR). The changes are conducted by making adjustments to all procedures in the companies so that they can fit into applying ERP modules. Proper adjustments will increase the employment performance for manufacturing companies. The data are collected from 100 questionnaires distributed to the manufacturing companies in East Java, and can further analyze from 77 questionnaires with a 77% response rate. Data processing is performed by using structural equation modeling of PLS and finds that BPR does not provide a direct improvement to the implementation of ERP in the companies. The changes to the standard procedure of the company, or BPR, give an impact of 0.422 to the implementation of ISO 9001. The implementation of ISO 9001 brings an impact of 0.763 on the implementation of ERP. The implementation of ISO 9001 does not affect the company performance, but the implementation of ISO gives a significant impact to the company’s performance of 0.664. The changes in standard procedures performed in the company, often called BPR, can improve the company’s performance by 0.2138, obtained through the implementation of ISO 9001 and the implementation of ERP.

The Impact of ERP Systems on Organizational Performance in Lebanese Wholesale Engineering Companies

This research explores the effect of the implementation status of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system on operational performance. Through the use of questionnaire, the collected data indicated that the implementation status of ERP modules have a positive varying effect on operational performance measures (controlling 37.5%, sales and distribution 37.4%, customer relationship management 37.4%, project system 28.4%, general logistics 24.7%, materials management 24.1%, advance planner and optimiser/advance planner and scheduler 19.6% and financials 18.7%). The results also showed that when studied as a whole system, ERP have a greater influence on operational performance namely 39.8%, also when only the significant modules were evaluated an even higher influence of 50.3% was seen, for this reason managers should clearly assess their business requirements and align their ERP modules needs accordingly in order to increase their operational performance.

A systematic approach for ERP implementation in the construction industry

The objective of this paper is to provide a decision support tool that helps in prioritizing enterprise resource planning (ERP) modules’ implementation. The literature shows high risks of failure during the ERP implementation in construction in­dustry. This research provides a systematic approach to have a successful ERP implementation in the construction industry. The provided approach of this research helps construction companies worldwide and specifically Saudi Arabia to better implement ERP projects. A case study approach is conducted with experts in ERP implementation at construction field in order to rank different ERP modules. This research develop a four step methodology to sequence the ERP module implementation. The first step defines the most common ERP modules in the construction industry. The second step defines the expected benefits of ERP implementation. The third step will define the importance index (I). Finally, the fourth step rank the ERP modules based on the global index that combines the criteria index and module index. The main findings of this research provided a comprehensive list of thirteen ERP modules ranked according to the Saudi construction industry. Out of thirteen modules, the top ranked mod­ules were inventory control and logistics, procurement, and project finance and accounting.

Open Source and Proprietary Project Management Tools for SMEs

The dimensional growth and increasing difficulty in project management promoted the development of different tools that serve to facilitate project management and track project schedule, resources and overall progress. These tools offer a variety of features, from task and time management, up to integrated CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) modules. Currently, a large number of project management software is available, to assist project team during the entire project lifecycle. We present the main differences between open source and proprietary project management tools and how those could be important for SMEs, describing the key features and how those can assist the project manager and the development team. In this paper, we analyse four open-source project management tools: OpenProject, ProjectLibre, Redmine, LibrePlan and four proprietary tools: Bitrix24, JIRA, Microsoft Project and Asana.

Change Management Perspectives in an ERP Module Implementation: A Case Study in a Telecommunication Company

Successful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects require change management to support the integration of the ERP systems into work environment because ERP imple¬men¬tations involve lots of changes on technical infrastructures, business processes, organization structure, rules and skills of people in the organization. This study was aimed to explain the challenges in implementing an ERP module in a Indonesian telecommunication company, focusing on the change management process involves in the project. A case study at a tele¬com¬munication company was used to collect empirical data and to analyses important aspects of project arrangements that will have an impact on the change management process accompanying the ERP implementation project. The following two aspects of changes were analyzed as the impact of ERP implementation: changes in individual behaviors and changes in the organisational practices. Based on the empirical study, two important aspects of change management effectiveness in the project and post-project stage were highlighted: alignment of the organization structure to support IT-business collaboration and alignment of employee orientation towards effective use of ERP systems. Besides, this study also highlighted that it is important to plan and execute change management process in the post-project stage to obtain benefits from ERP implementation.

Understanding Post-Implementation Support for Enterprise Systems: An Empirical Study of IT Personnel's Customer-Oriented Citizenship Behaviors

ABSTRACTPost-implementation support for information systems (ISs) remains an important but under-explored topic. In this study, we focus on the customer service aspect of post-implementation support for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and examine the antecedents and performance consequences of customer-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) performed by information technology (IT) personnel. We predict that characteristics of IT support tasks influence IT personnel's customer-oriented OCBs, which in turn exert both direct and moderating effects on their task efficiency. The analysis of 300 support tickets in relation to two ERP modules (Supplier Relationship Management and HR/Payroll Management) in a large enterprise provides mixed results. Task type was found to be associated significantly with the occurrence of OCBs, but the influence of task complexity was not significant. Moreover, OCBs were found to be negatively related to task efficiency, but the degree of the negative relation was contingent on task type and task complexity. The findings enhance our understanding of IT support services and extend the OCB literature on customer orientation. Practically, the results offer insights into managing IT support and IT workforce during the post-implementation stage of information systems.

The Research and Construction of National Grid ERP Knowledge Management System

A lot of domestic and international researches show that the effective management of knowledge has become a powerful way to improve the performance and success in many enterprises. Power concerns a countrys economy and its peoples livelihood so that knowledge management has been widespread concern in the power grid enterprises development and application. On April 29, 2007 , the State Grid Corporation decided to adopt enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as the core information technology platform and principal means for the informatization construction. In order to improve the efficiency of knowledge dissemination in National Grid ERP and make all the ERP modules theoretical knowledge to be shared, consulted and applied quickly among all he ERP users, this subject was based on the core ideas and characteristics of ERP in Hebei Electric Power Corporation, combined with its use problem of ERP to analyze specifically on the system requirements, functional design, build programs , feasibility and innovation, used ASP.NET and other technologies to achieve the construction of national grid ERP knowledge management system, and provide a knowledge management system (KMS) for quickly accessing, learning and sharing knowledge. It has great practical value.

Using the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory and Analytic Network Process Method to Integrate the ERP and MES Modules

Abstract Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can coordinate the different functions of enterprises and improve the information flows. As for the actual production situation, the ERP may not receive and record the information of equipments in detail, and the manufacturing execution system (MES) may not collect various kind of information between different business functions. Therefore, the ERP integrating the MES may help the enterprise to control the business operation smoothly. This research applied the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and analytic network process (ANP) method for the MES module into ERP system selection. The research results show that the DEMATEL may clarify the relationship and the ANP can compute the weights of criteria of the ERP and MES modules. The research also indicated that there is a high demand in integrating the sales and distribution module (SDM) of ERP into the material management system (MMS) of MES, which may improve the effectiveness of MES.

An overview of ERP in Indian Production Firms

Over the past nearly two decades, firms have increasingly invested in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to manage their information needs. Firms in developed countries account for the bulk of ERP deployments worldwide. In the past few years there has been increasing penetration of ERP in developing countries. The extent of ERP implementations among firms in developed countries is a well researched issue. In contrast, very few studies have examined the extent of ERP deployments in developing countries. In this study, we address the above research gap by presenting a rigorous empirical assessment of ERP implementations in Indian production firms. The implementation status of different ERP modules, performance benefits and the influence of critical success factors (CSFs) are key issues examined in this study.

A comparative study of proprietary ERP and open source ERP modules on the value chain

There have been many successful outcomes from open-source software (OSS) development, such as Firefox web browser, Apache server application, Linux operating system, etc. Due to time and cost constraints, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) cannot afford proprietary enterprise software. Therefore, there is an increased demand for open-source development of enterprise software from SMBs. Many studies have been done on implementation of large scale proprietary enterprise software, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM). However, open-source enterprise software implementation has not received much spotlight yet, in spite of its potentials as a disruptive innovation. In this study, we investigate types of ERP modules developed by an OSS community, SourceForge.net (SF). We classified 447 the most popular ERP projects of SF into 14 categories of proprietary ERP software used in previous studies. When we analysed (by a qualitative method) the contents of each category, we found that SMBs are using OSS for different ERP modules developed and provided by commercial vendors.

Supporting the module sequencing decision in the ERP implementation process—An application of the ANP method

The paper addresses the alignment between business processes and information technology in enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. More specifically, we concentrate on one of the key decisions at the tactical alignment level: the decision on the implementation sequence of the ERP modules. Since the module sequencing problem involves a myriad of organizational and technical issues, connected to each other in networked manner, the analytic network process (ANP) methodology is applied. As a result of the study, we present first a general level conceptual framework to sequence ERP module implementations and expand the model to a more detailed level in a case study. The priorities for the implementation sequence of the ERP modules are determined in the case study.