COIT20255 ERP Systems Management: Assessment 1 Portfolio, Term 1 2018

This portfolio presents a student's assessment for the COIT20255 ERP Systems Management course, focusing on critical reviews of various articles. The reviews cover topics such as the impact of enterprise systems on firm performance, integration challenges in manufacturing companies, the effectiveness of data-centric enterprise software, architecture evaluation for enterprise planning, and critical success factors for ERP systems. Each review includes summaries, critiques of significance, arguments, methodologies, and recommendations for improvement. The portfolio also demonstrates the student's understanding of IT governance and the factors influencing the success of ERP implementations, providing a comprehensive overview of key concepts in ERP systems management.

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2018, Term 1
COIT20255
ERP SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Assessment 1 Portfolio
Student Name: Sreeramya Udutha
Student ID: 12032662
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Contents
Week 1.............................................................................................................................................3
Importance or consequence of a field..........................................................................................3
Approach or procedure................................................................................................................3
Discussion or conflicts.................................................................................................................3
Style of writing............................................................................................................................3
Week 2.............................................................................................................................................4
Importance or consequence of a field..........................................................................................4
Approach or procedure................................................................................................................4
Discussion or conflicts.................................................................................................................4
Style of writing............................................................................................................................4
Week 3.............................................................................................................................................5
Importance or consequence of a field..........................................................................................5
Approach or procedure................................................................................................................5
Discussion or conflicts.................................................................................................................5
Style of writing............................................................................................................................5
Week 4.............................................................................................................................................6
Importance or consequence of a field..........................................................................................6
Approach or procedure................................................................................................................6
Discussion or conflicts.................................................................................................................6
Style of writing............................................................................................................................6
Week 5.............................................................................................................................................7
Importance or consequence of a field..........................................................................................7
Approach or procedure................................................................................................................7
Discussion or conflicts.................................................................................................................7
Style of writing............................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8
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Week 1
Importance or consequence of a field
The objective of the author is to successfully consume the enterprise system (ES) between
various firms of service which will enrich the capabilities of carrying out a competition. Several
researches were made regarding the system and it proved as the best system due to deliberately
using ES just to embrace few newly introduced technology that can effectively handle both
suppliers and customers. It includes some of its internal reasons that are performance estimation
and access towards the market that directly impacts the firm performance. It acts as a solution or
backup for prevailing rising competition within service sectors.
Approach or procedure
Analyses of present practices are used in the research process as by viewing the past work
inquiry is done on the past history of usage of ES. The procedure comes out from the observed
study by using the data of nearly 233 wholesale based services providers along with Swedish
retailers this is the reason gathered data can’t be biased. The generated results of ES states that
service providers deliberately incorporates ES to receive higher profits from the integration of
supply chain which at last impacts the performance at the bottom line. For a discussion of result
an analytical structure is used consisting of five possible sets that are:
 Market access, external and estimated pressure.
 Implementation of ES
 Integration and combination of supply chain
 Capabilities of competition
 Performance of any firm
Discussion or conflicts
Theory related issues are raised as they are less expressive to reality and only useful for
providing suitable insights. Even some casual inference can’t be created by several researchers.
Few claims are generated that Integration and combination of supply chain and Capabilities of
competition get influenced by ES and some evidence are also found including Electronic and
product interchange of data, management of customer relation and human capital, a support
system for decisions and planning of resource enterprise. The generated evidence are reliable as
ES organize the better flow of data, communication system, finance software and hardware. It
concludes with a justification that theory is completely against the defined conceptual model,
outcomes are defined and the hypothesis is stated.
Style of writing
The style of writing is easy and simply understandable including all possible details and nothing
remains left out. Keywords are properly mentioned and explained. It shares both practical and
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personal experience and opinion to gain ES validity (Mostaghel, Oghazi, Beheshti, and Hultman,
2015).
Week 2
Importance or consequence of a field
The objective of the author is to figure out the occurrence of integration based challenges in large
manufacturing based company when the structure of enterprise resource planning developed for
long-term reaches at the initial level of its retirement. This objective is implemented only in one
organization so a direct generalized outcome can be applied or implied on other companies. It
provides theoretical knowledge as it explains some documented architecture. In different other
fields of business, several functional and operative units are introduced depending of strategies
of ERP. The governance of integration was a point of concern because of some changes made in
an organization which affected the model of IT governance and decentralized the whole system.
Approach or procedure
An interpretive and qualitative approach is developed as the result of research where all
information can be obtained regarding the gathering of data. It grants an approach for description
of the case so as to narrate an organization along with its enterprise system for resource location.
The provided approach helps in better phenomenal understanding at different levels that are
practice, social view and institutional. It produces reliable results as the integration of
governance has an objective to validate requirements of integration and needs or requirements
are aligned with the purpose of the organization. The agile approach is the analytical framework
used to ensure partnership among virtual teams and expertise group for enhancement of ERP and
team formation among stakeholders in several organizations.
Discussion or conflicts
Several issues are raised with this research that are only single firm based investigation restricts
the generalized results. Restrictions are also made with the analysis of integration challenges that
took place between internal system landscapes. Claims are raised on the involvement of external
perspective leads to the occurrence of integration supervising projects based challenges among
business partners. Text depends on the evidence like written documentation that are termed as
reliable as it enables process-oriented creation and phenomena of an organization is also
explained in context based. The conclusion made here is justified as it allows the researcher to
carefully examine the instance of data and trace the originality of sources of data.
Style of writing
The style of writing is easy and simply understandable including all possible details and nothing
remains left out. Keywords are properly mentioned and explained. The case study it has mainly
emphasizes on causes and effects of the development of ERP because of lack of governance of
integration (Kähkönen, Smolander, and Maglyas, 2016).
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Week 3
Importance or consequence of a field
The objective behind Vicro communications is to make the fundamental practice of business
more effective, efficient and responsive using the software of data-centric enterprise. In order to
achieve the objective, the management of Vicro completely relied on this software so as to
improve the process or practices of business with full efficiency, enhance the sharing of
information, capabilities of warehouse and IT platform standardization. Due to lack of employee
feedbacks or opinions this system miserably fails even after investing million dollars. It provides
practical application based knowledge as analyses of Vicro of the existing system and views
whether a process was fluid. Vicro and several field work including database and print
management, digital marketing, forms and statement printing shares a relationship bond to grant
services like reengineering and management of the project. Business process reengineering
(BPR) faces issues as it doesn’t include crucial improvements in performance and High profile
technology (HPT) is unable to fulfil the vendor promises.
Approach or procedure
The procedure included here develops a case study from the gathered data from which it came to
know that only Vicro people seem to be comfortable with HPT and BPR. This developed
approach helps in understanding what happens if judgment makers just to improve performance
and current companies’ state understanding relies on vendor’s promises. The generated results
come out to be reliable as analysis of data suggests the principle of failure of the effort of
investment in software related decisions and the phase out of software. The framework created
was a phenomenological procedure which enables themes to rise before the time for a given case.
Discussion or conflicts
The issues related to BRP efforts are raised as Business process reengineering (BPR) don’t
include crucial improvements in performance and High profile technology (HPT) is unable to
fulfil the vendor promises. Also, there is a demand of effective BRP that helps people to
understand the role of technology and transformation effort process. Claims are raised that
further analysis of data using theme classification will lead to the generation of three further
‘super themes’ that comprises of mandate, immersion and fluidity. The text relies on few pieces
of evidence that are research finding and articles, phenomenal approach and software enterprise.
The following approaches will enable the accomplishment of a lot of interviews for transcribing
and analyze.
Style of writing
The style of writing is easy and simply understandable including all possible details and nothing
remains left out. Keywords are properly mentioned and explained. The case study it has mainly
emphasized on causes and effects of the development of BRP, HPT and ERP systems (Paper,
Tingey and Mok, 2018).
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Week 4
Importance or consequence of a field
The objective of research done is to review and evaluate elements based architecture of
enterprise planning of resource for rising organizations. To accomplish the objective, advantages
of architecture proposed are mentioned within a steady scenario depending on adaptively and
compatibility evidence of proposed architecture resulting in merging and varying circumstances
of an organization that revises the complete structures of hierarchies. It provides practical
application based knowledge regarding the architectures described. Several other field works are
a plug-in manager, datacentre, a host component, service and plug-in interface that form a
connection regarding service and data transfer. When it focuses on data storage, a database of
plug-in architecture is found to be missing or not in the desired place.
Approach or procedure
Plug-in architecture is used in this following research and an approach for building software
system analyses that tend to be extensible and customizable for user specific needs. It is not a
biased approach, it possesses clear rules regarding the laydown dependencies and interactions
among elements. The result or outcome leads to precise documentation explaining interact of
plug-ins and system extension. It generates viable results as working atmosphere are cultivating
in disciplined and determined manner. The analytical structure developed is Community
Preservation and Development Corporation (CPDC) which correctly acts at the time of scenario
merge, change and develop.
Discussion or conflicts
The issues raised here are regarding the developed architecture. In the architecture of data-
centric, a relation with customers reduced its corrigibility. In the architecture of plug-ins,
database is not present at the proper place for information storage. In the architecture of
components, it becomes difficult to associate the elements of integration of data. Claims are
raised that framework of CPDC enables to solve all problems described above. The discussion is
reliable as CPDC framework helps in the development of an entirely new system, traps the data
and locks the programmer problems. The evidence here acts as a passive source that are files and
blackboard is the active source. The evidence here are reliable as the client receives a message at
the time of data change. Blackboard has an arrow derived from sharing of data. It even provides
integrity of data during constituents of pre-built. Here the evidence are easily scalable and enable
the addition of new clients simply.
Style of writing
The style of writing is easy and simply understandable including all possible details and nothing
remains left out. Keywords are properly mentioned and explained. The case study mainly
emphasizes on various architectures and framework of CPDC for problem-solving (Rafighi,
Farjami, and Nasser, 2016).
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Week 5
Importance or consequence of a field
The objective of the author is to examine likely critical success factors (CSFs) meant for life-
cycle of a system of enterprise resource planning. It evaluates effects of CSFs on the perspective
of Information technology governance (ITG). The objective is in practice as learning recognizes
a downfall of both CSF and ERP systems that imitates interdependencies between the outcomes
of ITG and relationship driver’s along with phases. Two systems CSF and ERP are essential to
be reconsidered to motivate upcoming researches on behalf of desire for accomplishing good
outcomes of ITG. It provides practical knowledge as it supports the risk reduction of some high
priced ERP failures and approving that a technology is associated according to requirements of
the business. Several work fields that accept relationship which are risk management, strategic
alignment, and management of the resource.
Approach or procedure
Research here accepts a statistical investigation arrived from surveys regarding quantitative data.
The objective gets carried through few approaches that are an acquisition, maintenance and
operation, evaluation, formal introduction, last expansion etc. It delivers reliable results as the
system of ERP delivers procedure for achieving beneficial competitions and well-organized
operations. The ITG analytical structure is taken care of several results that fit good in
organizational and historical context within an organization that leads to the supply of values of
IT and enriches performance of the system.
Discussion or conflicts
Issues arise with major investments of IT including systems of ERP that sends results that are
substantial. The ERP investments are two-edged weapon causing great loss within the
organization. Claims are raised which provides technology usage which boosts dependency of IT
and specifically emphasizes on ITG. It has reliable argument as ITG provides structures that
enable the efficiency of investment and high business objectives. Evidence includes assets of
ERP as ERP coming issues affects phases of future. Frequent readings for CSFs and ERP justify
the conclusion that is dependent on various implementation stages of the system.
Style of writing
The style of writing is easy and simply understandable including all possible details and nothing
remains left out. Keywords are properly mentioned and explained. The case study mainly
emphasizes on CSFs, ITG and ERP systems (Li, Chang, and Yen, 2017).
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References
 Kähkönen, T., Smolander, K. and Maglyas, A 2016, Lack of integration governance in ERP
development: a case study on causes and effects, Enterprise Information Systems, 11(8),
pp.1173-1206, viewed 7 April 2018,
https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/1156824/mod_label/intro/Week-1%20Journal
%20article.pdf
 Li, H., Chang, S. and Yen, D 2017, Investigating CSFs for the life cycle of ERP system from
the perspective of IT governance, Computer Standards & Interfaces, 50, pp.269-279, viewed
7 April 2018, https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/1156825/mod_label/intro/Week-
2%20Journal%20article.pdf
 Mostaghel, R., Oghazi, P., Beheshti, H. and Hultman, M 2015, Strategic use of enterprise
systems among service firms: Antecedents and consequences, Journal of Business Research,
68(7), pp.1544-1549, viewed 7 April 2018,
https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/1156835/mod_label/intro/Week-3%20journal
%20article.PDF
 Paper, D., Tingey, K. and Mok, W 2018, The Relation Between BPR and ERP Systems: A
Failed Project. IGP, 5, pp.45-62, viewed 7 April 2018,
https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/1156826/mod_label/intro/Week-4%20Journal
%20article.pdf
 Rafighi, M., Farjami, Y. and Nasser, N 2016, Assessing component based ERP architecture
for developing organizations, IJCSIS, 14(1), pp.72-92, viewed 7 April 2018,
https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/1156827/mod_label/intro/week-5%20journal
%20article.pdf
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