University ERP Implementation System for E-commerce Business

This report focuses on ERP implementation within the context of an online e-commerce business, specifically an online shoe store. The student explores the need for an ERP system to manage procurement, inventory, and customer relationships. The report analyzes three ERP systems: Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management, aACE, and SAP ByDesign, evaluating their suitability for the e-commerce business model. It details the strengths and weaknesses of each system, considering factors such as integrated functionality, cloud-based architecture, inventory control, and financial management capabilities. The report references supporting literature and concludes by highlighting the importance of selecting an ERP system that aligns with the specific needs of the online business, particularly in managing inventory and customer interactions within the e-commerce environment.

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Selection of ERP system
The selected ERP for suitable for the online e-commerce for selling the shoes are-
 Sage business cloud enterprise management
 aACE
 SAP ByDesign
Justification for choosing those WRP system:
The organization is an online shoe store that sells hi-end shoes. The whole system is
operated through the online business process. However, the organization has no ERP system
for managing the business in the organization.
As the e-commerce organization does not manufacture shoes, however, the
organization buys shoes from the manufacturer and sells them to the seller through online
(Nandan, Dhir and Garg 2015). Here the functions of the organization includes procurement
management, managing the inventory and maintaining the customer and organization
relationship.
Sage business cloud enterprise management provides integrated functionality for
managing the consumer service, inventory, distribution and financial management. It is a web
based solution which is suitable for this e-commerce organization. The functioning of this
ERP system is responsive to both computer and the mobile devices (Omar and Gómez 2016).
The storage of the information is done through the AWS cloud either managed by Sage or the
cloud providing vendor. The main attribute of this ERP system is that it can be configured
according to the requirements of the company. In that case, it can be said this system is
flexible.

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aACE is the on-demand ERP system based on the cloud architecture. This is suitable
for the e-commerce organization mentioned as this ERP system is capable for maintaining the
business deals with the vendors or partners and monitors the sales along with overall business
performance.
SAP ByDesign is capable to provide the e-commerce organization to manage the
inventory in a proper way (Nwankpa 2019). Apart from that through this ERP system, the e-
commerce business organizations can manage the financial data and maintain the
accountability of the system.
Strength and weakness of the selected ERP systems for the e-commerce organization:
The strength of the Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management is that I coverall all
the functionalities of the e-commerce organizations. Apart from that it provides the technique
for maintaining the relationship between consumers and the e-commerce organization.The
weakness of this ERP management system is that it does not provide unique solution for the
managing of the selling through online business.
aACE suitable for the e-commerce business as it provides proper inventory control
which is important for the e-commerce system. One of the disadvantage of this system is that
it does not provide solution solely based on the marketing an inventory control for the e-
commerce organization.
SAP ByDesign has certain advantage. As it is a cheaper solution compared to the
other enterprise management system (Hooton et al. 2017). The disadvantage of the system is
that is does not provide required support for managing the finance in a proper way. Apart
from that there are other SAP solutions which provides better solution than this system.
It can be said that all the three mentioned ERP system is suitable for the e-commerce
organization which is selling shoes online. As the organization is not manufacturing the

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shpes, the ERP systemhas to maintain the inventory or the stocks of the shoes which are
brought from the manufactures. All these three ERP system is capable of maintaining the
inventory in the organization.

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References
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Nandan, V., Dhir, S. and Garg, A., 2015, October. Statistical analysis of Indian e-commerce
market. In 2015 International Conference on Soft Computing Techniques and
Implementations (ICSCTI) (pp. 146-151). IEEE.
Nwankpa, J.K., 2019. ERP Systems Benefit Realization and the Role of ERP-Enabled
Application Integration. In Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business
Operations and Management (pp. 802-815). IGI Global.
Omar, K. and Gómez, J.M., 2016, November. A selection model of ERP system in mobile
ERP design science research: Case study: Mobile ERP usability. In 2016 IEEE/ACS 13th
International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.