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2. Jawaria Hameed

3. Mahrukh Sheikh

4. Maryam Khan Baloch

5. Rabab Rizvi

6. Saroosh ZahidTuesday, December 21, 2010

7. What is an E.R.P.?

8. Enterprise Resource Planning “A process or approach which attempts to consolidate all of a company's departments and functions into a single computer system that services each department's specific needs.”

11. ERP systems had a boost in sales in the ‘90s due to the Y2K problem

13. Improved Cash Management

14. Increased Revenue and Profits

15. Reduced Transportation and Logistics Costs

17. Customer satisfaction

18. Business development-new areas, products and services

19. Ability to face competition

20. Efficient processes to push the company to top gear

21. IT

22. Present software does not meet business needs

23. Legacy systems difficult to maintain, Y2K problem and Euro Currency

25. Integrate customer order information

26. Standardize and speed up manufacturing processes

27. Reduce inventory

29. Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning The six main steps of an ERP project: Vendor Selection Business Strategy Formation Application Configuration Testing and End-user Acceptance Training Rollout

30. ERP systems Implementation Project Organization

32. Paperless work environment

33. Performs ‘what if’ scenarios and analysis

34. Ability of the Company to Optimize Newer Technologies and Products

35. Y2K Compliant Systems without Rewriting Legacy Code

36. Consolidation and Centralization of Corporate Data

38. Creates a plan automatically that guarantees there will be no violation of resource constraints

39. Provides an ideal platform to perform businesses globally and regionally.

41. Integration and testing

42. Customization

43. Data conversionHidden Costs of ERP

44. Calculating Return on Investment (ROI) Obtaining Support from Major Executives and Third Parties Major Business Process Reengineering (BPR) ERP Is Cost Prohibitive Scope Creep Difficulty of Training End Users ERP Challenges

46. Inclusion of Sales-force Automation Applications and Supply Chain Management Software

47. Outsourcing ERPHow ERP Is Evolving

48. Market Leaders

51. Large government – very few use ERP,

52. Medium non-government – 20% approx.

53. Medium government – 5% approx.

54. Small non-government and small government – near to none. ERP’s used locally Jaffer Brothers, Mobilink, Shell, IBA, Tapal, Unilever, PIA, UBL, Civil Aviation, Siemens etc.

55. Interview with Jaffer Brothers ERP uses a single database. Did the database ever crash? And do you have any backups? “I have never seen one crash. But we have strong Disaster Recovery Management Plans in place in case of any disaster such as bomb blast, natural calamities, viruses and other network problems.” Are people resistant to the new ERP systems? How do you overcome that challenge? “People are reluctant to use new ERP solutions, which is a natural human behavior. Now for this we have two tools: Incentive (Push) approach Stick (Pull) approach”

57. 50% of ERP software projects are terminated somewhere along the implementation process.

58. 75% are rated poor by the users (of those that are implemented and reached the operational phase)

60. Questions.