ERP Applications Research Articles

New approach to Rogers’ innovation characteristics and comparative implementation study

Abstract This study aims to develop a research model that analyzes the effects of the innovation and organizational characteristics in literature on ERP application users’ rates of adoption. Innovation characteristics model in literature is extended and new research model, which includes both innovation and organizational characteristics, is developed and both models are tested on 403 users with factor analysis. Moreover, the sample is divided into 10 categories to observe how characteristics differentiate in both models in each category. Results indicate that categorizations of the sample have distinctive impacts for both models and create dynamic structure which flexes the rigidity in literature.

Information System Design Based On Enterprise Resource Planning Using Account Payable Module Sap With Accelerated Sap Method In Pt. Len Industries (Persero)

Abstract— PT. Len Industries (Persero) is a State Owned Enterprise business field of electronics for industry and infrastructure. PT. Len Industries (Persero) experienced problems related to Accounts Payable in the accounting department as incompatibility and delays in the processing of data and information that flows every day from other parts related to Accounts Payable section and otherwise. This is caused by the information system on PT. Len Industries (Persero) has not integrated with one to another and still done with simple technology and recording manually.
 Therefore, has been designed of an ERP information system that supports the activities of recorded Accounts Payable(AP) module at PT.Len Industries (Persero). Design of the system is used the method of ASAP (Accelarated SAP). By using this method, the authors conducted an analysis of the business processes that are running on the company and analysis of business processes in SAP ERP application. Then based on the results of the gap/fit analysis, will performed design proposal and design of business processes to SAP applications that have been compared to the needs of the company.
 The results from this study is an SAP Accounts Payable system that has been design and integrated with the company needs can be easier for companies to conduct cross-section of the existing Accounting.

Success of ERP Applications in Technology Migration and Organization Management

Success of ERP Applications in Technology Migration and Organization Management

Archiving ERP data to enhance operational effectiveness: the case of Dolphin

Transaction-intensive, customer facing applications and the most critical high volume ERP and CRM applications are collecting and storing huge amount of data resulting in exponential increase in the size of database. ERP applications are based on layered architecture and complicated relational databases. An overloaded relational database reduces ERP performances and increase hardware and maintenance cost. Managing security and growth of databases size has become the prime concern of organisation to enhance performance and reduce cost. The article has taken a case study to highlight why data archiving is crucial for the enterprises running SAP solution in optimising business performance. The present article discusses the challenges faced by an organisation in managing the growing SAP data and how a data management strategy in place can help the organisation in enhancing the performance of the system.

Archiving ERP data to enhance operational effectiveness: the case of Dolphin

Transaction-intensive, customer facing applications and the most critical high volume ERP and CRM applications are collecting and storing huge amount of data resulting in exponential increase in the size of database. ERP applications are based on layered architecture and complicated relational databases. An overloaded relational database reduces ERP performances and increase hardware and maintenance cost. Managing security and growth of databases size has become the prime concern of organisation to enhance performance and reduce cost. The article has taken a case study to highlight why data archiving is crucial for the enterprises running SAP solution in optimising business performance. The present article discusses the challenges faced by an organisation in managing the growing SAP data and how a data management strategy in place can help the organisation in enhancing the performance of the system.

Bridging the Gap between ERP Applications and eCommerce Solutions

Bridging the Gap between ERP Applications and eCommerce Solutions

An enhanced recovery programme after caesarean delivery increases maternal satisfaction and improves maternal-neonatal bonding: A case control study

ObjectivesEnhanced recovery programmes (ERP) have been shown to improve postoperative outcomes. The aim of our study was to investigate the impact of an ERP after caesarean delivery on maternal feelings and satisfaction towards mother-child bonding initiation, in comparison with traditional postoperative care. Study designA comparative, prospective and multicentre study was conducted in three maternity units of the Paris area: one applied traditional postoperative care while the two others applied an ERP, were included patients after elective or emergency caesarean delivery who had given birth to full-term healthy singleton newborns. Data were collected from 8th October 2014 to 31st January 2015. Patients were asked about their feelings toward the relationship with their infant using a questionnaire, to be completed one (D1) and three (D3) days after caesarean delivery. ResultsPatients (n=86) received post-operative care in agreement with what was expected in the group in which they were included. Patients in the ERP group had more positive feelings toward the relationship with their newborn on D1 and D3, had a greater maternal satisfaction level on D1 and were more comfortable in caring for their newborn, especially for cradling and breastfeeding the child. ConclusionOur study suggests that application of ERP after caesarean delivery is associated with improved maternal satisfaction and more positive feelings toward the relationship with the newborn.

RFID Implementation of Supply Chain: Comparison of Three Case Studies

Abstract: This paper integrates the impact of different approaches in implementing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, namely supply chain inventory management system based on RFIDs to address the challenges encountered in the operation of the warehouses, item-level inventory tracking at retail stores, and customer order processing and distribution using RFIDs; to eventually propose RFID based supply chain management. Supply chain management (SCM) involves an effective information sharing, inventory management, transportation, sourcing and pricing strategies. This paper highlights upon how RFID can improve SCM drivers, one by one, and together that improve overall synergy. This paper extends the solutions of case studies and proposed improvements to RFID solutions in ERP applications. The paper also highlights the motivation to such implementations as these solutions offer further cost savings and performance gains. Consequently we conclude that RFID is a vital technology for the success of SCM and bridging the gaps among the existing enterprise applications.

English

The CRM and ERP systems are usually obtained and implemented separately and at different times. Quite often they are purchased from different sellers and producers, and implemented by different teams.As a rule, the CRM and ERP systems contain separate databases even if they come from the same manufacturer. Such separately kept databases also lead to separate basic records (identifiers), which primarily relate to business partners, items and services. This may create problems with updating and maintaining consistency of the data within the information system of a company. The CRM and ERP systems usually overlap in certain segments of business processes (e.g., orders, order confirmations, quotations, etc.), thus potentially creating redundant information and documents. More often than not, the CRM and ERP also differ in terms of technology, both by their vertical architectures and with regard to the DBMS and API support. The objective of this paper is to generate an ERP-CRM integration data model by way of optimising the relevant processes and costs, and to provide details about the processes of integration of the logical and physical data models. The structural integration of the ERP-CRM databases provide the integration services that ensure all the necessary functionalities in various interface logics and technologies with regard to software solutions and applications given, or used for local adaptations of the existing ERP and CRM applications.

Performance Review System – An ERP Application with Secure Data Storage and Cloud Backup

Performance Review System – An ERP Application with Secure Data Storage and Cloud Backup

Functional brain network and multichannel analysis for the P300-based brain computer interface system of lying detection

Deception is a complex cognition process which involves activities in different brain regions. However, most of the ERP based lie detection systems focus on the features of ERPs from few channels. In this study, we designed a multi-channel ERP based brain computer interface (BCI) system for lie detection. Based on this, two new EEG feature selection approaches, bootstrapped geometric difference (BGD) and network analysis were proposed and applied to feature recognition and classification system. Unlike other methods, our approaches focus on the changes of EEGs from different brain regions and the correlation between them. For the test, we focus on visual and auditory stimuli, two groups of subjects went through the test and their EEGs were recorded. For all subjects, BGD of the P300 for all the scalp electrodes combined with SVM classifier showed the average rate of recognition accuracy was 84.4% and 82.2% for visual and auditory modality respectively. Statistical analysis of network features indicated the difference in the two groups were significant and the average accuracy rate reached 88.7% and 83.5% respectively, and the guilty group showed more obvious small-world property than innocent group. The results suggest the BGD and network analysis based approaches combined with SVM are efficient for ERP based expert and intelligent system for detection and evaluation of deception. The combination of these methods and other feature selection approaches can promote the development and application of ERP based lie detection system.

Theoretical and Methodological Bases of Formation of Information Systems, Intellectual Property Management in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations

The article deals with the formation of information systems, management of intellectual property in knowledge-intensive organizations. The aim of the research is theoretical justification for the development and implementation of automated information systems, management of intellectual property in high-tech companies and corporations which constitute a part of an integrated automated information systems management organization or corporation, as the application of ERP II. The survey identifies the nature and content of information systems in the economy, investigates the role of intellectual property in the development of innovative economy in Russia, proposes the classification of technical solutions in the field of information systems managing the intellectual property, analyzes the experience of intellectual property management in leading Russian and foreign organizations and corporations, and represents the review of the existing automated information systems for intellectual property management. It is concluded that it is necessary to practically test the development and implementation of automated information systems, management of intellectual property in high-tech companies and corporations as the application of ERP II.

System Architecture and Data Flow in Applications for Cross Platform Communication in a Secure Network

interfacing online application system with an Intranet based ERP application is always a difficult task and contains so many threats in the process. The aim of this research paper is to describe the methods, technology, algorithms and implementation details of system architecture for cross platform communication of diversified applications over network. This paper consider author's base paper namely Implementation of a Novel System for Cross Platform Communication of Diversified Applications over Network. The paper describes the difficulties to transfer the data files from the Intranet server to Centralized web server with proxy server settings, the authors face. This system is in Visual Studio 2010 development environment, using C# programming language, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and SQL Server 2012 to develop a join system. To protect the data from attackers, the firewall restrictions should be setup. This paper focuses on the process of transfer data from SAP R/3 system to SQL server of local Intranet server which then makes the text files of the data and the data is transferred to the Web application server after the files are zipped. So the overall process contains difficulties to pass the Intranet firewall setup as well as to secure the whole process. The paper also focusses on the process of Bulk Copy Program, optimization of routing decision and secure data transmission through the help of web services. The various keys are associated with throughout the process and the final version of data would be final after transmission. The objective of this work is to describe the overall architecture for Cross Platform Communication of author's previous work.

Letter From the Editor

Letter From the Editor

Effects of decision rationality on ERP adoption extensiveness and organizational performance

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how decision rationality affects ERP adoption extensiveness and subsequently, organization performance. The mediating roles of system usage and user satisfaction on the relationship between adoption extensiveness and organizational performance are also examined. Design/methodology/approach – This study was based on a questionnaire survey of 976 public-listed companies and 200 unlisted manufacturing companies. Responses of 93 ERP adopters were analyzed. Findings – ERP adoption extensiveness is significantly affected by the overall measure of expected economic benefits, but not by any of the economic benefit type individually. On the other hand, mimetic pressure individually affects ERP adoption extensiveness, but not the overall measure of institutional pressures. ERP adoption extensiveness is significantly associated with organizational performance, and the mediating roles of system usage and user satisfaction are supported. Research limitations/implications – This study has the limitations associated with questionnaire-based research and its small sample size may also limit the generalizability of its findings. Practical implications – The high emphasis on operational benefits of ERP adoption and the significant effect of mimetic pressure on ERP adoption extensiveness imply that organizations in Malaysia are largely “followers” of the technological innovation and generally have yet to exploit the full potentials of their ERP systems. Government agencies may need to play a more active role to facilitate fuller utilization and adoption of the higher end ERP applications. Vendors of ERP systems may need to review their strategies to increase their sales of ERP systems to the smaller business enterprises. Originality/value – The paper addresses the relatively void in literature on the link between decision rationality and technology adoption extensiveness and the subsequent organizational performance in the context of an emerging economy.

DATA MODEL CUSTOMIZATION FOR YII BASED ERP APPLICATION

As UD. Logam Utama’s business grow, trigger the need of fast and accurate information in order to improve performance, efficiency, control and company’s values. The company needs a system that can integrate each functional area. ERP has centralized database and able to be configured, according to company’s business processes.First phase of application development is analysis and design the company’s business processes. The design phase produce a number of models that will be used to created application.The final result of application development is an ERP application that can be configured with the company’s business process. The ERP application consist of warehouse or production module, purchasing module, sales module, and accounting module.

INNOVATIVE ERP APPLICATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NEW ZEALAND EXPERIENCE

Annotation. Contemporary economic science is looking for ways of research actualisation to resolve the challenges under the world financial crisis. Besides existing challenges in private de-regulated sector, one of the efficient innovations can be found in broadening ERP applications in the Public Sector. This paper approaches to the ERP applications mainly from the eco-nomical rather than from technical perspective. Comparative analysis of New Zealand public sector is supported by relevant in-ternational practical experience (implementations), and by core fundamental analysis of economical nature of business proc-esses used by public entities. The key advantage (based on a historical timeline) comes from a full integration of financial scope and operational activities. Using the example of ERP (as one of the drivers of productivity & performance improvement), the pa-per is aiming to underline how to bring the best practice and technology (data management and logical architecture) from the private sector into the public sphere. Keywords: ERP, Public Sector, optimisation, New Zealand, productivity, financial implementation, configuration.

Overview of external reference pricing systems in Europe

Background and objectivesExternal reference pricing (ERP) is a price regulation tool widely used by policy makers in the European Union (EU) Member States (MS) to contain drug cost, although in theory, it may contribute to modulate prices up and down. The objective of this article was to summarise and discuss the main findings of part of a large project conducted for the European Commission (‘External reference pricing of medicinal products: simulation-based considerations for cross-country coordination’; see www.ec.europa.eu/health/healthcare/docs/erp_reimbursement_medicinal_products_en.pdf) that aimed to provide an overview of ERP systems, both on processes and potential issues in 31 European countries (28 EU MS, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland).MethodsA systematic structured literature review was conducted to identify and characterise the use of ERP in the selected countries, to describe its impact on the prices of pharmaceuticals, and to discuss the possible cross-country coordination issues in EU MS. This research was complemented with a consultation of competent authorities’ and international organisations’ representatives to address the main issues or uncertainties identified through the literature review.ResultsAll selected countries applied ERP, except the United Kingdom and Sweden. Twenty-three countries used ERP as the main systematic criterion for pricing. In the majority of European countries, ERP was based on legislated pricing rules with different levels of accuracy. ERP was applied either for all marketed drugs or for specific categories of medicines; it was mainly used for publicly reimbursed medicines. The number of reference countries included in the basket varied from 1 to 31. There was a great variation in the calculation methods used to compute the price; 15 countries used the average price, 7 countries used the lowest price, and 7 countries used other calculation methods. Reported limitations of ERP application included the lack of reliable sources of price information, price heterogeneity, exchange rate volatility, and hidden discounts. Spill-over effect and downward price convergence have often been mentioned as ERP's consequences leading to pricing strategies from pharmaceutical companies.ConclusionWhile ERP is widely used in Europe, processes and availability of price information vary from one country to another, thus limiting ERP implementation. Furthermore, ERP spill-over effect is a major concern of pharmaceutical firms leading to implementation of the so-called ‘launch sequence strategies’.

The Application Research of ERP in Enterprise Information Management

The development of science and technology has become an inevitable trend of economic globalization, more and more enterprises realize that the competition between enterprises has already becomes a complex systems engineering, and in the process, the original management pattern gradually exposed the shortcomings, should be replaced by the information management mode. So far, the most complex ERP is the enterprise information management system, it for the enterprise information management provides a new train of thought, to optimize enterprise resource allocation efficiency, strengthen the core competitiveness of the enterprise. This paper analyzes the application of ERP system in the process of enterprise shown, the characteristics of problems including the system in use process. This article selects the typical enterprise ERP application case study, based on the enterprise ERP implementation methodology reference model quickly, for the related industries, enterprises implementing ERP, and equipment asset management problem of study for reference.

JenniferSoft: APM software development leader in Korea

This case study is targeted at understanding the information technology (IT) industry and addresses the challenges faced by JenniferSoft, a leading example of an application performance management (APM) software development company. The company has developed applications that monitor the performance of important modules in enterprise systems (ERP). These ERP application modules have become more critical because of IT infrastructure complexities and security issues throughout the system. This study invites students to examine the related dilemmas and to evaluate the core strategies of JenniferSoft. In addition, this case research provides a full summary of application performance management (APM) industries and market status to understand the IT enterprise sectors in Korea.