ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

Every sentence should contain high impact information.

Please do not use bullet points.

It is required to have a total of 1100 to 1200 words.

I only want the high-impact statements, the things that the CEO needs to know.

I also want it to be business oriented, not academic. Cite at least 7 sources and ensure that you regularly cite your sources throughout your essay. Make sure to use industry sources. Avoid repetition to make up the word count.

Topic Categories:

• ERP/SAP & Procurement
• ERP/SAP & Life Cycle
• ERP Process REDESIGN
• ERP/SAP & Sales
• ERP/SAP & Manufacturing
• ERP/SAP & Implementation
• ERP/SAP & Environment/Green Technology
• ERP/SAP & AI
• ERP/SAP & The Cloud
• ERP/SAP & Security
• ERP & Vendor Comparison
• ERP & Consulting

Specific examples of paper topics:

• Does procurement using ERP save money?
• What effect does SAP have on Security in an organization”
• What are the advantages of using ERP on the cloud?
• IS implementation of ERP good for the environment?
• Does SAP help to improve quality in manufacturing?

SOURCES

You are required to use at least 7 sources which can be:

• 5 industry papers + 2 academic/research papers

OR

• 5 academic/research papers + 2 industry papers

Include at least one ERP case study as a source.

Practitioner/Trade/Industry sources

• Avoid marketing materials. Try to find White Papers, FAQs or How-To pages.
• For Industry sources, you can use Google Advanced search to specify the website.
• You can include site:CIO.com in your search term in order to search only CIO.com.
• You can include filetype:pdf in your search term to bring back only PDF documents (technical documents).

Your industry sources should be from the following list.

Software Industry Giants:

• SAP.com
• IBM.com
• Microsoft.com
• Oracle.com
• GartnerGroup.com

Business:

• HBR.org
• Forbes.com
• WSJ.com
• Linkedin.com

Technology Management:

• CIO.com
• Computerworld.com
• Wired.com
• Cioinsight.com
• Bloomberg
• Techcrunch
• Tech.co
• business-software.com
• Ctovision.com
• Biztechmagazine.com

Consulting Companies:

• KPMG.com
• Deloitte.com
• PWC.com
• McKinsey .com
• Bain.com
• EY.com

STRUCTURE

• You will be using APA style and especially APA formatted citations.

Introduction (Why ERP? – This is general knowledge and you can cite the textbook and 1 or 2 of your sources).

Define each major term in your topic.

State a major problems that ERP solves.

State a general benefit of ERP.

State a challenges of ERP.

Body (Knowledge gained from reading your 7 papers)

This section will use all of the 7 sources you have located. Create a narrative that focuses on the narrow topic you are researching. Make sure that there is a clear thread running through your statements. You will probably have sub-headings.

Demi & Haddara (2018) defined ERP retirement as the act of putting in a different ERP. Demi et al. (2018) used an Egyptian case study for convenience. They said that “reasons of retirement were: wrong selection, users were not involved in the selection process”.

ERP literature tends to focus mostly on retirement of systems after they become mature (Demi & Haddara, 2018)

Conclusions (Main points from the body of your paper. What we should learn about ERP?)

Summarize what can be learned from your paper. This is the version you will present to the CEO in 5 minutes.

References

Demi, S., & Haddara, M. (2018). Do cloud ERP systems retire? An ERP lifecycle perspective. Procedia computer science, 138, 587-594.

Haddara, M., & Elragal, A. (2011). ERP lifecycle: When to retire your ERP system?. In ENTERprise Information Systems: International Conference, CENTERIS 2011, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 5-7, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 168-177). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.