Enterprise Resource Planning

Running head: ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
Enterprise Resource Planning
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
ERP stages and Benefits:.................................................................................................................2
Discovery and the Planning stage:...............................................................................................2
Design Stage:...............................................................................................................................3
Development stage:.....................................................................................................................4
Testing and Deployment stage:...................................................................................................5
Ongoing support:.........................................................................................................................6
ERP Systems Journey May Never End:..........................................................................................6
Final Documentation:..................................................................................................................7
Help desk and On-site Support:...................................................................................................8
Additional Training:....................................................................................................................8
Scalability and Upgrades.............................................................................................................9
Continuous improvements:..........................................................................................................9
Drivers and barriers in the process of moving from one stage to another:....................................10
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................11
References:....................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction:
ERP or the Enterprise Resource Planning is considered to be a software associated with
managing the business process and is mainly associated with providing of an integrated platform
for helping and managing the entire business activities along with the different back office
functions as well which are seen to be associated with the organizations functions (Hustad,
Haddara and Kalvenes 2016). The ERP implementation is associated with including a step by
step approach.it is also considered that whenever a new ERP system is released and the same
goes live then the task comes to an end. Despite of all this there still exists numerous post related
to go-live work along with the assistance which are necessary for the implementation of the
system. This document would be associated with discussing about the different stages of the ERP
journey along with highlighting the benefits associated with each stage (Nassar, Warrad and
Siam 2017). Besides this there also exists certain barriers which are seen to be present in the
processes related to moving from one stage to another and all this have been presented in this
report. For reference, in this report different case studies have been considered so as to explain
the concepts that are related to the journey of an ERP.
ERP stages and Benefits:
Discovery and the Planning stage:
This is the first stage of the journey is discovery and planning which is associated with
initiating the design and implementing the ERP system. This stage is seen to be responsible for
including the identification of the goals and objectives along with the business needs of an
organization by means of an analysis and conducting of studies assisted by different kind of
meeting arrangements so as to discuss about the business (Chofreh, Goni and Klemeš 2018).

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Another major constituent of this stage is the identification of the team members along with their
respective duties and responsibilities which are to be allocated to them. This stage generally acts
as a foundation of the entire ERP journey which is also associated with including the
documentation of the main processes as well as the requirements. Some of the other activities
which are seen to be included in this stage involves the risk analysis, identifying the gaps which
are potential along with having a understanding of the solutions which are possible to be
implemented (Shatat 2015). The final result includes putting forward of a project plan which
would be consisting of all the details in a document.
The stage is associated with putting forward of several benefits for the overall ERP
journey. The first and the foremost benefit is the identification and finalization of the ERP
foundation. Secondly this particular stage is including the senior management along with the
project leader who would be having the capability of understanding the requirements and
specifications of the ERP system. Besides this, the discovery and planning stage is also
associated with helping in putting forward of a wide picture of the steps which are to be adopted
in the later section of the journey along with reviewing them (Chofreh, Goni, and Klemeš 2017).
Deloitte is a leading multi-national professions service firm which is having its headquarter
situated in United States have been associated with suggesting the fact that this particular stage
of the ERP journey is the most significant one and is associated with following the same during
the complete implementation of the ERP.
Design Stage:
The stage followed by the first one is the designing stage. In this stage the main details as
well as the records which the client provides are reviewed which is followed by carrying out of
the alignment and the thorough analysis of the ERP system for the project resources as well as