Reflection Report: Enterprise Systems and Teamwork - University Name

This reflection report analyzes the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems within a business context. The report details the student's contributions to a group assignment, which involved researching ERP concepts, exploring different software solutions like NetSuite ERP, SAP ERP, Sage ERP, Odoo ERP, and Microsoft Dynamics, and evaluating their advantages and disadvantages. The student highlights their learning experience in teamwork, emphasizing the development of problem-solving skills, effective communication, and collaboration. The report also includes a feasibility analysis of selected ERP systems (SAP ERP, Sage ERP, and NetSuite ERP) and provides recommendations for a case study organization, Snow White Dry Cleaners (SWDC). The student's role encompassed researching ERP systems, evaluating their technical aspects, and contributing to the introduction, discussion, and conclusion sections of the assignment, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of ERP implementation and teamwork dynamics.

Running head: REFLECTION REPORT
Enterprise Systems Reflection Report
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note:

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Contributions made to the group assignment
I, being an important and significant member of the team has got the opportunity to
research and understand about the concept of enterprise resource planning and its
implementation in any specific business. I have learnt that this specific software is referred to
as the type of enterprise application, which is the software, being designed to be used by
popular businesses and even needs dedicated teams for better customization as well as
effective analysis of the data to ensure that the deployment and up gradation is being handled
efficiently. Moreover, I have gone through different scholarly articles for understanding the
future growth and development of the product and vendor of ERP. This particular group
assignment was divided in different sections of introduction, discussion and conclusion. I had
to make the entire introduction part with few parts of discussion. I had to complete the
exploration part of the marketplace for potential enterprise resource planning software that
are relevant to the organization and case study of Snow White Dry Cleaners or SWDC.
Being, an excellent student of enterprise systems, I did not face any type of complexity while
completing the work successfully. I had suggested five suitable enterprise resource planning
solutions and vendors for the assignment, which were Net Suite ERP, SAP ERP, Sage ERP,
Odoo ERP and finally Microsoft Dynamics. I have highlighted different advantages and
disadvantages of these five solutions of enterprise resource planning, so that it becomes easier
for the group to complete the rest of the assignment successfully.
Learning experience on teamwork skills
I had an excellent learning experience from the group assignment made. I was able to
develop my skill for problem solving and effective communication with the rest of the team
members. I have known that team work is the respective collaborative effort of any specific
group for the core purpose of achieving a common objective and task in an effective and
efficient manner. The group was comprised of interdependent individuals, who are working
together for a common objective. Due to my active participation in the assignment, I was able
to gain knowledge about problem solving skills and understood that problem solving is
extremely important for all the group members. The major problem solving skills that I have
developed from this group assignment include active listening, proper analysis, better and
effective research, high creativity and innovation, proper communication with the rest of my
team members and accurate decision making. Since, my project was for enterprise resource
planning, I also took help from our supervisor to ensure that I am working accurately and my
team building capability is enhanced under any circumstance. Furthermore, due to my
effective collaboration and team development skills, I was able to transfer my data and
knowledge as well as concept about the work to the next team member, so that it becomes
easier for us to complete the work of enterprise resource planning successfully and
efficiently. As introduction is the first part of the assignment, I had to pay extra attention to
my sections.

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Contributions made to the group assignment
I had some of the most significant and important contributions in this group
assignment. I was the second member in this group assignment. Before, starting my work,
even I had to complete a research on enterprise resource planning. My parts included core
technical knowledge about different systems and vendors of enterprise resource planning and
hence I paid extra attention to the details of ERP software. I have known that it is a specific
integrated management of major business procedures that are often mediated through
technology and software. It is a major category of business management software that any
company could easily utilize for the core purpose of assortment, storage, administration as
well as clarification of data from several business activities. My part in this group assignment
included detailed evaluation of 3 short listed systems and vendors of ERP and I had short
listed SAP ERP, Sage ERP and Net Suite ERP after analysing different criteria. Moreover, I
even had to select the most accurate and effective enterprise resource planning systems and
vendors according to the preferences.
Learning experience on teamwork skills
My learning experience had been excellent for this assignment. At first, I had to
communicate about the short listed systems and vendors for enterprise resource planning with
the previous member of the group for understanding the following details properly. The
respective software of enterprise system could easily provide a proper as well as integrated
overview of different business processes with common database that is being preserved by a
specific DBMS. These distinct systems of enterprise resource planning could promptly track
different business resources such as production capacity, raw material and cash for checking
the status of every business commitment like payroll order, purchase order as well as
management order. Different applications that make up the system to integrate data within
different departments of accounting, sales, manufacturing and purchasing, are responsible for
providing data eventually.
As a result, I was able to complete my part accurately and our group assignment was
proceeded to the final part. One thing that was common and effective for our assignment was
effective communication. I had ensured that proper communication is prevailing amongst the
team members of this particular assignment, so that it becomes easier for all of us to complete
our work sequentially. Moreover, due to my active participation and team building skills, I
was able to ensure that the end result of our assignment is according to the requirement given
to us by our supervisor. The problem solving skill was also developed by me in this
assignment and hence I was able to ensure dependability in the task appropriately.
Furthermore, I was also successful in ensuring that the complexity of the task is reduced to a
high level and I am able to leverage the resources for being productive for any specific team.
Due to such proper group development skills, it became quite easier for all of us to get proper
results from the assignment without any type of issue or complexity.

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Contributions made to the group assignment
I was the third and the final member of this group assignment of enterprise resource
planning or ERP. I decided to complete the rest of the work, after discussing with my
supervisor and two other team members. They advised me to understand about the software
of enterprise resource planning at first, so that I do not face any type of complexity while
providing proper solutions under any circumstance. After researching properly, both from the
Internet and scholarly articles, I understood that there are several business processes that are
needed to be considered for implementation enterprise resource planning in any business.
These distinct business processes in every business functionality do not comprise of the core
capability to share information with one another. It is quite difficult for the managers to
eventually assemble the respective fragmented data into different systems for presenting a
complete picture of the organizational operations and taking firm wide decisions. With the
help of an enterprise systems, subsequent information could eventually flow seamlessly in the
entire firm. After understanding about the software of enterprise resource planning, I decided
to look into the previous parts of the assignment that were complete by my other two team
members. My part in the assignment included feasibility analysis of the three short listed
systems of enterprise resource planning of SAP ERP, Sage ERP and Net Suite ERP.
Moreover, I even provided two suitable recommendations to the case study organization of
Snow White Dry Cleaners or SWDC. Finally, I had to complete the conclusion section, along
with suitable scholarly references.
Learning experience on teamwork skills
The entire learning experience of this particular group assignment was extremely
smooth and effective for me. I had focused on different aspects such as team collaboration,
team efficiency and problem solving skills in the task, so that the process of executing the
work becomes systematic and effective as compared to any other group assignment, done
before by me. The process and skill of decision making was also present in the assignment
from me and I had to take up few group decisions, on behalf of the entire team. Since, I was
concluding the entire group assignment, communication played one of the most significant
and important roles in our assignment. I had to communicate properly, so that the rest of the
two group members get proper understanding about suitable recommendations that I have
provided and the conclusion that I have made in the task. I even had developed skills for
persuasion and influencing and hence as a result, I was able to influence my team members to
get proper results in the group assignment effectively and efficiently. I also provided proper
and accurate feedback to the works done my group members and pointed few gaps that were
existing in their parts and they successfully removed them on my suggestion. The similar
thing was repeated in my parts as well, where I had taken their valuable suggestions for
making my assignment quite effective and proper, in comparison to the rest of the group
assignments.

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