The Battle For ERP Leadership

Question: Discuss about the JD Edwards Wins The Battle For ERP Leadership? Answer: According to previous analysis, it can be depicted that: Oracle can be used for CRM, Support team, employee data management and customer product reviews. SmartCLIXX can be used for Order processing, Order purchasing and order payment. SAGE can be used for inventory management, shipping, returns, procurement, invoice management, inventory management and orders. Net facilities can be used for upgrade and repairs MS Share Points can be used for planning. SAP can be used for budget and finance related activities. Qlikview can be used for business intelligence and analytics processes. CA spectrum can be used for Knowledge management and monitor control. Workday can be used for finance related activities like payroll, appraisal and also for HR related activities like recruitment. Black bear can be used for can be used for promotion and advertising. Based on the selection of above mentioned business processes, following ERP packages have been selected: SAP SAP is the most well-known products of SAP AG. The enterprise software helps in managing complex operations and maintains customer relations very efficiently. SAP ERP helps in following operations: Reduction in order processing Reduction in preparing invoice Increase financial cash flow Provides real-time transaction facility which can be viewed by all the authorized users. Reduction in order purchasing time Reduction in order processing time Reduction in working capital, free cash flow and number of days sales outstanding. Increases investment potential. Reduction in order-to-cash time. Oracle ERP It is the key software of Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle EBS is based on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). It provides support at customer end, supply chain end and high-level decision support system, which is known as ERP II. In addition to traditional features of ERP, it also includes Oracle ERP integrated CRM (Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management and BI (Business Intelligence). From the above mentioned analysis, it depicted that Oracle can be used for staff management, Customer Relationship Management, team support and maintaining customer product reviews. It can be concluded that Oracle ERP will continue to be used in near future i.e. for next 3 years and 5 years for managing employees and customers. PeopleSoft This ERP allows the organizations to frame a global foundation of HR data and efficient business processes. PeopleSoft Human Capital Management delivers a robust set of features fro human resources functionality which allows organizations to increase productivity, facilitates business performance and also reduces the cost of ownership. PeopleSoft Human Capital Management can be used for managing following business processes: Global Core Human Capital Management Labor rules and monitoring Talent Management Workforce management Workforce service delivery D. Edwords This ERP is basically used to represent the lifecycle of the business. Following are key areas along with practical companies where it has become successful: Distribution management (Avon) Supply chain management (Avon) Finance process management (Avon) Planning management (Statoil Fuel Retail) Unification of business processes (Agribusiness giant JR Simplot) Efficient product deliveries (Sunrise Medical) 3-year plan After 3 years, the company will be require following business processes: SAP Oracle PeopleSoft J. D. Edwards CRM X Team support X Order processing X Order Purchasing X Order payment X Employee management X Business intelligence and analytics X Product quality check X Knowledge management X Payroll X Transaction management i.e. budget management X Invoice management X 5-year plan After 5 years, the company will be require following business processes: SAP Oracle PeopleSoft J. D. Edwards CRM X Team support X Order processing X Order Purchasing X Order payment X Employee management X Business intelligence and analytics X Product quality check X Knowledge management X Payroll X Transaction management i.e. budget management X Invoice management X Recruitment X Advertising X Smartphones have evolved rapidly and very soon will surpass the number of computers in the world today. This achievement would be achieved in a fraction of a time which the computers would have taken to achieved. At the same time, smartphones are providing an alternative means of computing which is not only portable but effective solutions. Tasks such as web browsing, checking and replying to emails, making an appointment, video conferencing to complex business applications such as project management are being done on mobile devices. In order to help these devices handle such complicated tasks, both the software and the hardware on these devices are evolving rather quickly. At present, high end mobile devices are no less powerful than a business notebook. They would surpass this performance barrier in a year or two. There is no doubt that various personal computing tasks can be effectively replaced by these devices, but the question remains that can it replace complex business tasks. One of the biggest business application is CRM. CRM is an application to manage communications with both future and current customers. Most of the modern CRM applications have been re-designed to be less resource intensive, cloud backed and feature rich. Mobile devices such as Android is capable of running a modern CRM application. For instance, Zoho CRM provides its CRM suite for android devices similarly Resco Mobile, a software company, provides mobile application for the renowned CRM application Microsoft Dynamics. Modern systems combined Invoice Management, Transaction Management Order Processing, Order Purchasing and Order payment are typically provided in a single suite of applications made for the retail industry. Much of these applications are designed in a way that they could be run on mobile devices so as to target all sizes of businesses. Now commerce, EOS CPQ and NetSuite ERP are prime example of such applications. HR Suite and Employee Management systems are no differe nt. A complete end-to-end HR suite have been developed which can handle most of the complex tasks previously only accomplished by a desktop suite. These tasks include employee management, payroll calculation, recruitment and other tasks. BambooHR and Shiftplanning are some examples in this regard. Oracle has developed an application for iPad and iPhones that allows business provides users with full range of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics functionality. Jaspersoft and Pentaho which is owned by Hitachi are other companies providing turnkey solutions in this regard. However, the mobile business analytics and intelligence tools still appears to be limited. Advertising systems are complex and varied. Many advertising systems are provided by the ad exchange, ad networks, mediators or publishers. Hence there are very limited systems. However, modern ad networks and publishers, especially digital ad networks can handle most of the advertising related tasks via their mobile applications. Similarly, Knowledge management systems are known to go mobile as well. Many companies are empowering their employees with handheld devices which have knowledge systems on the go so that the information remain on their fingertips. One such company in this regard is iFactr. Android CRM X (ZOHO) Team support X Order processing X (EOS CPQ) Order Purchasing X (EOS CPQ) Order payment X (EOS CPQ) Employee management X (BambooHR and Shiftplanning) Business intelligence and analytics X (Jaspersoft and Pentaho) Product quality check X Knowledge management X (Jaspersoft and Pentaho) Payroll X (BambooHR and Shiftplanning) Transaction management i.e. budget management X Invoice management X (BambooHR and Shiftplanning) Recruitment X Advertising X References Advantages Of SAP ERP. (2016).Erpgreat.com. 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