System Improvement
Introduction
The purpose of the assignment is to select an information system that is owned by an organization; evaluate the system and suggest the improvements in the system. The paper attempts to define information system, an organization that owns and maintain the system, existing processes system addresses, and to makes suggestions for system improvements.
Describe the nature of the information system you have selected.
The enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is widely used information system by organizations for diverse purposes. The system has been designed for all size organizations. The nature of the system is that it is “business process management software”. The software was designed to allow companies to integrate their all business systems in order to manage the business efficiently and automate multiple back office functions associated with human resource, services, and technology. The enterprise resource planning system (ERP) software integrates all facets of operations including product development, planning, production, marketing, and sale. In other words, the ERP system streamlines the organizational processes such as human resource, sales, marketing, services, procurement, manufacturing and so on and enable organizations to stay competitive for long-term.
Describe the organization that owns and maintains the information system.
A German company is the designer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and currently, SAP is the organization that owns and maintains an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The organization was found in 1972 in Germany with the aim of introducing products and applications in data processing. The organization with the struggle of several years has become the prime provider of the business solutions in the world to its customers with the 25 percent of market share; which is higher as compared to other companies, playing in the industry. This is true that the company offers excellent products, but the perfection is not guaranteed (ERP GREAT, n.d). Hence, the systems of the company need improvements for having greater advantages of profitability.
Describe the existing business process that this system will address.
The business consists of multiple processes such as marketing processes, administration processes, procurement processes, manufacturing processes, billing processes, human resource management and so on so forth. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is software that addresses all these processes exist in the organization. Even the system allows organizations to integrate their worldwide business processes so they can run their operations effectively and efficiently all over the world (SAP, 2016).
Evaluate how this process can be improved as a result of the information system improvement
The ERP information system is very complex and adjusting according to the system is not an easy task for companies; hence, it is essential that the complexity of the system is reduced, as through the proper implementation companies can improve their overall business processes. Improved implementation of the system will allow organizations to have greater integration of diverse business processes that in result enhance the productivity of businesses. The information system can be improved through enhancing the internal information sharing that will in result improve the whole business processes from procurement to selling.
Problem statement matrix
(Adapted from: SolutionDots, 2013; Columbus, 2013; NetSuits, 2016)
Conclusion
The assignment determined the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system introduced by SAP, a German company that offers data processing software and applications. It has been determined that the company offers the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to clients with the aim of providing them a competitive advantage. The system integrates overall all organizational processes and helps the organization in improving their productivity. The systems offered by Sap are excellent, but not perfect. Hence, enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is evaluated, and some suggestions for the improvement of the system have been proposed. It is realized that through implementing these suggestions the company will be able to grow its sales, as the core reasons due to which many organization are hesitant to deploy the ERP system will be resolved in the result of system improvement. Therefore, the sale of the company will increase.
References
Columbus, L. (2013). 2013 ERP Market Share Update: SAP Solidifies Market Leadership. Forbes. Retrieved July 23, 2016, from http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2013/05/12/2013-erp-market-share-update-sap-solidifies-market-leadership/#5c9a89135755
ERP GREAT. (n.d). An Introduction to SAP. Retrieved July 23, 2016, from http://www.erpgreat.com/sap-introduction.htm
NetSuits. (2016). ERP Implementation Best Practices. NetSuite Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2016, from http://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/erp/erp-implementation.shtml
SAP. (2016). Get ahead of the game with an enterprise resource planning system (ERP) from SAP. Retrieved July 22, 2016, from http://go.sap.com/product/enterprise-management/erp.html#related-products
SolutionDots. (2013). What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of ERP System. Retrieved July 23, 2016, from https://solutiondots.com/blog/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-erp-system.html
