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Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (enterprise + resource_planning_system)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting57%

Selected Abstracts

The Impacts of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Accounting Practice , The Australian Experience

AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, Issue 22 2000
PETER BOOTH
This paper reports on the enteqbrise resource planning (ERP) systems experiences of Australian companies. It examines the degree of information system integration and associated benefits that respondent companies believe they have achieved, and the impact of ERP systems on the adoption of new accounting practices. The results indicate that while ERP users report high levels of information integration for many functional areas, the pattern is similar to that of non- users. Also, ERP systems seem to perform better in transaction processing and ad hoc decision- support than in sophisticated decision-support and reporting. Finally, ERP systems were found to have little influence on the use of new accounting practices. [source]

Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems: an alternative research agenda

NEW TECHNOLOGY, WORK AND EMPLOYMENT, Issue 3 2006
Kristine Dery
This paper reviews literature that examines the design, implementation and use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs). It finds that most of this literature is managerialist in orientation, and concerned with the impact of ERPs in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and business performance. The paper seeks to provide an alternative research agenda, one that emphasises work- and organisation-based approaches to the study of the implementation and use of ERPs. [source]

ERPs as ,technologies-in-practice': social construction, materiality and the role of organisational factors

NEW TECHNOLOGY, WORK AND EMPLOYMENT, Issue 3 2006
Kristine Dery
Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) often fail to deliver the organisational benefits anticipated. This paper uses Orlikowski's ,technology-in-practice' framework to analyse the impact of an ERP on branch managers in a large bank. While this framework provides important insights into the impact of ERPs, the case also highlights the significance of organisational factors in shaping how users enact technology at work. [source]

Emergent maintenance of ERP: new roles and relationships

JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, Issue 6 2001
Sabine Gabriele Hirt
Abstract How a firm supports its enterprise resource planning system after putting it into production, when its maintenance may be said to be emergent, is critical to the benefits it will eventually derive. Here we report a longitudinal case study of one firm's emergent maintenance of its SAP R/3 system. The study reveals that maintenance-related roles and relationships differ substantively from those typical of traditional maintenance. We view this firm's maintenance practices to be a harbinger of broader and longer-term change in maintaining application portfolios. We suggest that the roles and relationships involved are likely to be more complex and therefore more varied in organizational form. In particular, we anticipate: (1) greater sharing of the maintenance task among more participants, with the firm's users often assuming the lead, supported by vendors and third parties; (2) the IS department often playing a more limited, but still key role in providing a portfolio's ongoing support services; and (3) a contingency approach to maintenance, the best approach being a function of specific organizational and systems circumstances. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Implementing student information systems

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, Issue 136 2006
Laurie Sullivan
Implementing an enterprise resource planning system is a complex undertaking. Careful planning, management, communication, and staffing can make the difference between a successful and unsuccessful implementation. [source]

Implementation never ends! the postimplementation organizational and operational implications of ERP

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, Issue 136 2006
Philip J. Goldstein
Planning for the ongoing support and maintenance that accompany implementation of new enterprise resource planning systems may be more essential to realizing benefit from a technology investment than choosing the product with the most features. [source]