BPI Business Precess Integration. ERP is one of the most popular and best-selling packages of SAP.

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Contents

Contents        2

List of Tables        2

Reflective Piece1: SAP and Article Review        3

SAP- Company ,products/services and benefits        3

Article review: Enterprize resource planing in reengineering business…………….....6

Reflective piece 2: Impact of Internet Technology on ERP        7

Benefits and adrawbacks of Web - based ERP systems        8

Reflective Piece 3: Understanding of ERPsim Game        10

Reflective Piece 4: Data mining and competitive advantage        12

Applications of Data mining        13

Reflective Work 5: ERP Sim Experience        15

List of References        17

List of Tables

Table 1. SAP Business suite applications        3

Table 2. List of benefits and drawback of ERP systems        5

Table 3. Benefits and drawbacks of web - based ERP systems        9

Table 4. Individual roles of the group members        10


REFLECTIVE PIECE 1 – SAP and Article Review

SAP- SAP – company, products/service and benefits

Formed in 1972, SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is seen today as the largest inter-enterprise software firm in the global market. Due to the wide range of products that they have, SAP has become the third largest independent software solutions supplier for businesses. The headquarter of the company is located In Walldorf, Germany, However, they have subsidies in over 50 countries and thousands of customers in more than 150 different countries. SAP is present in the America's, Asia and Europe (SAP 2012).

SAP provides a Business Suite which is a package of applications that offers companies the opportunity to integrate information and processes as well as improve functionality which allows the company to compete more effectively in the market. SAP Business Suite is composed of five applications being the following:

          Tabla 1: Business SAP Business Suite applications (own table created from SAP 2012)


By using these applications companies are able to get and retain customers, integrate manufacturers with all the information related to product, gain procurement from suppliers; achieve marketing and customer insight and process resourcing. In addition, SAP implementation has many other benefits among which are the following:

  • It supplies solutions for workflow and back-office processes
  • SAP helps companies to reduce costs and increase flexibility
  • Better efficiency and productivity by leveraging processes and functions across company
  • Immediate access to all the information needed by the staff at all levels
  • SAP supports companies to integrate and optimize business processes as well as reduce integration costs
  • Improve financial management and increase profitability (SAP 2012, SAP SD 2010)

ERP is one of the most popular and best-selling packages of SAP. It was developed from the evolution of MRP (Manufacturing resource planning), MRP II and JIT (Just-in-time). ERP allows companies to integrate all the processes and synchronise each function within an organisation in order to get the real-time information required to have a wide visibility for key performance indicators needed to meet company objectives. The main functions included in an ERP could be named as warehousing, sales, finance, distribution, marketing, supply chain systems, asset management and human resource management (Siriginidi 2000: 378- 379)

Nowadays, in a world driven by high competition and complex processes ERP could be the key to get competitive advantage over rivals. Other benefits as well as drawbacks are shown in Table 2.


Table 2: List of benefits and drawbacks of ERP systems

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(Own table created from Shehab et al. 2004, SAP SD, Siriginidi 2000)


Article review: Enterprise resource planning in reengineering business

Summary and Key learning Points:

  • Nowadays the world is facing a lot changes for instance, higher competition, complex processes, higher technology, customers’ preferences and environmental changes. In order to keep up with them all, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is becoming a crucial element for organisations.

  • BPR improves efficiency and effectiveness of companies’ processes as well as increase the speed of decision making.

  • IT implications have a very important role for organisations as it ...

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