ICT501– Foundations of IT
Week 11
Lecture
Introduction to Enterprise Systems
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Learning outcomes
• LO1 Describe the purpose of an enterprise system.
• LO2 Explain how supply chain management is used.
• LO3 Summarize the challenges in supply chain management.
• LO4 Describe customer relationship management systems.
• LO5 Explain knowledge management systems.
• LO6 Explain how personalization technology is used to improve customer service.
• LO7 Describe enterprise resource planning systems.
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Supply Chain Management
• Supply chain
• Integrated network
• Consisting of an organization, its suppliers, transportation companies, and brokers
• Used to deliver goods and services to customers
• Exist in both service and manufacturing organizations
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Exhibit 11.1 A Supply Chain Configuration
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Supply Chain Management (cont’d.)
• Supply chain management (SCM)
• Process of working with suppliers and other partners in the supply chain to improve procedures for
delivering products and services
• Coordinates:
• Procuring materials
• Transforming materials into intermediate and finished products or services
• Distributing finished products or services to customers
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Supply Chain Management (cont’d.)
• In manufacturing firm, information in an SCM system flows between the following areas:
• Product flow
• Information flow
• Finances flow
• Four key decisions in supply chain management:
• Location
• Inventory
• Production
• Transportation
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Supply Chain Management (cont’d.)
• Vendors offer comprehensive solutions:
• SAP
• Oracle
• JDA Software
• Manhattan associates
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Dell Computer’s Supply Chain
• Modified its supply chain from a “push” to a “pull” manufacturing process
• Also known as “built to order (BTO)”
• Main sales channel is direct sales to customers
• Dell has been able to reduce costs by eliminating intermediaries and shortening delivery time
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SCM Technologies
• Information technologies and the Internet play a major role in implementing an SCM system
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Enables business partners to send and receive information on business transactions
• Expedites delivering accurate information
• Lowers the cost of transmitting documents
• Advantage of being platform independent and easy to use
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SCM Technologies (cont’d.)
• Using EDI has some drawbacks
• Uses the X.25 standard
• Beneficial when more companies are in the EDI network
• Often was not affordable for small suppliers and distributors
• Open EDI
• Based on XML
• Traditional EDI has declined in popularity
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Internet-Enabled SCM
• Improves information sharing throughout the supply chain
• Can improve the following SCM activities:
• Purchasing/procurement
• Inventory management
• Transportation
• Order processing
• Customer service
• Production scheduling
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E-marketplaces
• Third-party exchange
• Provides a platform for buyers and sellers to interact with each other and trade more efficiently online
• Benefits
• Increases efficiency and effectiveness in the supply chain
• Provides opportunities for sellers and buyers to establish new trading partnerships
• Provides a single platform for prices, availability, and stock levels that’s accessible to all participants
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E-marketplaces (cont’d.)
• Solves time constraint problems for international trade and makes it possible to conduct business around
the clock
• Makes it easy to compare prices and products from a single source instead of spending time contacting
each seller
• Reduces marketing costs more than traditional sales channels can
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E-marketplaces (cont’d.)
• E-distributor
• Marketplace owned and operated by a third party that provides an electronic catalog of product
• Maintenance, repair, and operations (MROs) services
• Includes services from different vendors
• E-distributor coordinates them into one package for customers
• Example of a horizontal market
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Online Auctions
• Bring traditional auctions to customers around the globe
• Make it possible to sell far more goods and services than at a traditional auction
• Brokerage business model
• Reverse auctions
• Invite sellers to submit bids for products and services
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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment
• Coordinate supply chain members through point-of-sale (POS) data sharing and joint planning
• Any data collected is shared with all members of the supply chain
• Coordinating the supply chain can be difficult
• CPFR ensures that inventory and sales data are shared across the supply chain
• So that everyone knows the exact sales and inventory levels
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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment
(cont’d.)
• Costs for each partner are shared or minimized
• Unforeseen problems can crop up
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The CPFR Process
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Customer Relationship Management
• CRM
• Consists of the processes a company uses to track and organize its contacts with customers
• Main goal of a CRM system
• Improve services offered to customers
• Use customer contact information for targeted marketing
• Marketing strategies in a CRM system
• Focus on long-term relationships with customers instead of transactions
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Customer Relationship Management (cont’d.)
• Identifies segments of customers
• Improves products and services to meet customers’ needs
• Improves customer retention
• Identifies a company’s most profitable (and loyal) customers
• Helps organizations make better use of data, information, and knowledge to understand
customers
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Customer Relationship Management (cont’d.)
• Gives organizations more complete pictures of their customers
• Integrates demographic and other external data with customers’ transaction data to better understand
customer behavior
• Pays external agencies for additional data about you that might be public or semiprivate
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Customer Relationship Management (cont’d.)
• With a CRM system, organizations can:
• Provide services and products that meet customers’ needs
• Offer better customer service through multiple channels
• Increase cross-selling and upselling
• Help sales personnel close deals faster by offering data on customers’ backgrounds
• Retain existing customers and attract new ones
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Customer Relationship Management (cont’d.)
• CRM systems include:
• Sales automation
• Order processing
• Marketing automation
• Customer support
• Knowledge management
• Personalization technology
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CRM in Action
• Time Warner Cable Business Class
• CRM system from Salesforce.com
• Analyze business data, improve the accuracy of forecasts, improve problem solving, and monitor sales
and business activities
• Important features of the system include:
• Dashboards, features for “drilling down,” Web-based knowledge base for employees and customers, and
Web log for sales personnel communication
• Has increased productivity by 10%
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CRM Applications
• On-premise CRM or Web-based CRM (SaaS)
• Several software packages are available for setting up a CRM system:
• Amdocs CRM, Optima Technologies ExSellence, Infor CRM, SAP mySAP, Oracle PeopleSoft CRM, and
Oracle Siebel
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CRM Applications (cont’d.)
• Features:
• Salesforce automation
• eCRM or Web-based CRM
• Survey management
• Automated customer service
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Personalization Technology
• Personalization
• Satisfies customers’ needs, builds customer relationships, and increases profits
• Designs goods and services that meet customers’ preferences better
• Customization
• Allows customers to modify the standard offering
• Such as selecting a different home page to be displayed each time you open your Web browser
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Personalization Technology (cont’d.)
• Using personalization requires gathering a lot of information about customers’ preferences
and shopping patterns
• Amazon
• Known for using personalization to recommend products to customers
• Nordstrom.com
• Suggests shoes or a tie that go with the suit or a similar suit in the same category
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Personalization Technology (cont’d.)
• Apple iTunes
• Other songs that listeners like you purchased are suggested
• Google account holders
• Personalized search results that are reordered based on their searching histories
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Personalization Technology (cont’d.)
• Implement a personalization system
• Internet, databases, data warehouse/data marts, data-mining tools, mobile networks, and collaborative
filtering
• Collaborative filtering (CF)
• Searches for specific information or patterns, using input from multiple business partners and data
sources
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Knowledge Management
• Improve CRM systems by identifying, storing, and disseminating “know-how”—facts about
how to perform tasks
• Knowledge is an asset
• Should be shared throughout an organization to generate business intelligence and maintain a
competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Knowledge is more than information and data
• Also contextual
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Knowledge Management (cont’d.)
• Knowledge repository
• Stores knowledge of experts
• Example: knowledge base of typical customer complaints and solutions
• Motivates employees to share knowledge
• Offer reward
• Simple knowledge management system
• Using groupware
• Other tools and technologies include:
• DBMSs, data-mining tools, decision support systems
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Knowledge Management (cont’d.)
• Knowledge management system should help an organization to:
• Promote innovation by encouraging free exchange of ideas
• Improve customer service by reducing response time
• Increase revenue by reducing the delivery time for products and services
• Improve employee retention rates by rewarding employees for their knowledge
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Enterprise Resource Planning
• Integrated system
• Collects and processes data
• Manages and coordinates resources, information, and functions
• Many components, including:
• Hardware, software, procedures, and input from all functional areas
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Enterprise Resource Planning (cont’d.)
• Well-designed ERP system benefits:
• Increased availability and timeliness of information
• Increased data accuracy and improved response time
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Improved employee satisfaction
• Improved planning and scheduling
• Improved supplier relationship
• Improved reliability of information
• Reduction in inventory costs
• Reduction in labor costs
• Reduction in order-to-fulfillment time
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Enterprise Resource Planning (cont’d.)
• ERP systems are available as modules
• Organization can purchase only the components it needs
• Keeps costs down for organizations
• More than 40 vendors offer ERP software
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ERP Streamlines Operations at Naghi Group
• Naghi Group implemented an ERP system to integrate its major functional areas,
including finance, sales, and supply chain management
• Using ERP, the firm’s managers are able to view financial data, keep track of
inventory status, and analyze its customers’ purchasing activities in real-time
• The ERP system has streamlined operations and improved customer service; it has
also contributed to more timely business decisions
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ERP Components
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Global ERP in Action
• Jabil Circuit
• One of the top five electronic manufacturing service providers worldwide
• Integrate information from all branch plants
• Teamed with IBM Business Consulting Services to migrate all branch sites to a global ERP
system
• Reduced the time needed to integrate information and generate reports by 60%
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Summary
• Enterprise systems
• Supply chain management (SCM)
• Technology
• Customer relationship management (CRM)
• Personalization
• Customization
• Knowledge management and enterprise resource planning (ERP)
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Any Questions?
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