No Slide TitleDefinition & ERP’s role in the Supply Chain
Business Aspects
Applications and Advantages
Value Chain Thinking
Separate Applications for business functions
90’s Technological Trends
Open Systems
Faster Data processing
Use of Blueprinting
ERP
SIS
business processes & data across the company
ERP
SIS
Definition
Modeling
through Complex Interfaces
Series of Switches
R/3: Real-Time Version 3.0
Client/Server enterprise application software
6,000 companies, 50 countries
Companies in diverse businesses
800 predefined business processes
Specific Models & Enterprise Models
Process Engineering Cost Benefits
Allows Companies to Adapt
to New Business Opportunities
Requires Equipping employees with new skill sets
Hard to Keep Resources
Effect the Organization’s Culture
Very Expensive
ERP
SIS
Middleware
Middleware
Application
Layer
Basis
Layer
Dictionary
Program
editor
Interface
builder
Modeling
tools
Repository
ERP
SIS
AS/400, etc.), DBMS(Informix Online, Oracle 7, ADABAS, DB2, MS SQL
Server 6.0, etc.), GUI flatform(OS/2 Presentation Mgr.., OSF/Motif,
Macintosh, Windows, etc)
IS
SD
CO
AM
MM
PP
HRM
PS
WF
FI
QM
PM
DW
- Issues: Integrated customizing functions, quality assurance, etc.
Implementation environment
Procedure model
Reference model:
Comm. Model,
Distr. Model
Available-to-Promise (ATP), the real-time capability to take an order, schedule it to be delivered anywhere in the world and confirm delivery instantly
Ability to determine what was actually in inventory or in production and how much of it had been promised to other customers
7.bin
ERP
SIS
Scope
Based on the full suite of Oracle Corp.'s manufacturing and operations applications
750 users in 25 locations worldwide
To adopt Big-bang approach
One of the largest distributed business systems to go live worldwide at one time
HP9000 hardware, HP UX operating system (10.1) and Oracle Release 10.4
8.bin
ERP
SIS
Each division's business transactions in separate databases by business unit, and by function within a unit
Databases couldn't share information
Project Planning & Control
Project team members pulled from regular jobs & relocated to “Building 12”
“Building 12” essentially set up a scaled-down business model of Quantum
Team members play-acted their real-life roles
Improved business processes and wrote requirements for the new system
10.bin
ERP
SIS
Packaged available applications & selected Oracle applications
Consultants from Price Waterhouse and Oracle, installed the software & began pilot projects
Complexity and magnitude of the project quadrupled (Digital Disk drive division acquisition)
Conference room pilots tests
Human (HR) Side
Locally trained about 100 users from all over the world and flew them into Milpitas to run a full-scale system simulation
Sponsored massive user training - users had to pass a test before returning to their jobs
Ran Internal PR campaign- Entailed group meetings, presentations,an intranet site and events emphasizing system's importance
12.bin
ERP
SIS
development Tools
Strategic Alliances