After finishing your studies at EU, you and your partners (Group) decided to create a business. Since then it has grown both in turnover (this year it will exceed $1.500.000) and employees – there are now 6 employees in the company, giving a headcount of 9. The company is a service company, providing consultancy and project management services to other companies and public bodies.
For the next 3-4 years you anticipate turnover growth of at least20% p.a. The company will only add only 2 or 3 more people in terms of headcount in the next 2 years.
The software used in the company is MS Office and Project. Until now, the person responsible for the accounts used the MS Office package as the rest of the company. Other than some MS Excel spreadsheets and Access databases, there is no company-wide software. The system has worked satisfactorily until now, but you feel that as the company takes on larger projects, you would like to implement a simple, easy to install, easy to use, affordable ERP.
The company does not plan to manufacture anything; therefore this part of the application is not essential.
Since you do not plan to expand in terms of number of employees, you choose not to run with a large, expensive package such as SAP or Oracle full enterprise wide ERP solution, but choose a product (or products) suitable for small and medium businesses. It can either be purchased and installed outright or used on an SAAS (software-as-a-service) basis.
You anticipate a maximum of 10 concurrent users. For the purposes of this exercise disregard hardware and networking requirements. There is no integration required with any other system.
The deliverable for this project is a short presentation (2 minutes each member max.), recommending suitable software. You should agree with your group members which position you will have in this company (can’t be duplicated). Start your presentation with a clear description of your position responsibilities, duties, objectives & strategies. Then indicate the chosen software(s), why you have chosen it, why you think it will help the business work better, how it will help you in your duties and business processes, and if possible, an estimation of the cost and the installation time (only if this information can be easily found on the website).
This assignment should be done by web research – using information available on web sites. As discussed in class, you can find information about this kind of solutions in AWS, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, and feel free to research some other vendors.
Avoid just cutting and pasting the marketing copy found on the homepage of software sites – it is usually very generic, paints an excessively optimistic picture and provides little real information. But you should be able to explore the site to find descriptions of the product’s features, etc. Try and put yourselves in the situation of the company and explain why the software in question might be suitable.
The whole process of purchasing an ERP is very long and complicated. It takes companies weeks or, more normally, months. What I am asking you to do here is a brief, very simplified task. The aim is to make you aware of the complexity of the process, and to make you undertake simple internet research into software vendor sites.
The deliverable for this piece of work is a 6 - 8 minutes presentation (approx.), to be delivered on the final day of class.
Please state clearly the names of all group members.
Imagine that you are presenting your proposal to the board of directors / shareholders, who are seeking their current and future needs of the company. The more seriously you take the assignment, by showing an understanding of the nature of the task involved, risks, scope, implications, etc. the higher the grade.
Remember, this presentation will assess your knowledge on this subject, so be prepared to answer any questions related.
I’m giving you the company (This startup), but not your position. You will be telling me which ones you choose.
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Case Brief:
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Forecasting:
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Business requirement:
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In the ever fast growing digital world many solutions help small, medium and large enterprises to not only automate their systems but also digitise different departments to speed and ease the supply chain.
Some core ERP system solutions available are AWS, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP.
On the basis of product suite offered by each one of them we recommend SAP implementation because of the following solutions:
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Group members name:
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