Software Project: ERP Implementation for Medium Organizations

This project focuses on the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system within a medium-sized organization. The project aims to research the specific needs of the organization to facilitate effective ERP implementation, with objectives including analyzing the organization's requirements and executing the ERP system integration. The project plan outlines a timeline from September 2018 to June 2019, detailing phases such as planning, requirement analysis, designing, development/implementation, testing, and maintenance. Key stakeholders include the organization owner, project manager, team members, and sponsors. The anticipated benefits encompass improved business process management, increased productivity, enhanced efficiency, and reduced production costs. The project team consists of technical experts, legal advisors, financial risk managers, a project manager, business analysts, software coders/developers, and software testers. Expected outcomes include seamless integration of business operations and streamlined information management. The initial cost estimation is approximately $196,440, covering various project phases.

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Table of Contents
Background and Current Practice........................................................................................2
Project Aims/Objectives......................................................................................................2
Start Date and Completion Date..........................................................................................2
Stakeholders.........................................................................................................................3
Project benefits....................................................................................................................3
Project team.........................................................................................................................4
Expected Outcomes.............................................................................................................4
Initial Cost Estimation.........................................................................................................4
References............................................................................................................................6

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Project Title: Software Development: Implementation of ERP in a medium sized Organization
Background and Current Practice
The use of information technology is needed in every organization irrespective of the size
and type of business. Small and medium sized business can realize the positive effects of
adoption of technology (Schwalbe, 2015). The Enterprise Resource Planning system is a process
of integrating all the important parts of a business and the business operations such as planning,
purchasing, inventory sales and human resource.
Many organizations are currently implementing the enterprise resource planning system
in their business operation and therefore, it is necessary for a medium sized business
organization to implement this project.
Project Aims/Objectives
The project aims as researching the needs of a medium sized organization in order to
implement an enterprise resource planning system in that organization. The objectives of this
project are as follows (Leon, 2014)-
1. To research the needs of implementing an ERP system in a medium sized organization
2. To implement Enterprise resource planning system in the organization.
The project aims at implementation of an enterprise resource planning system in a
medium sized organization after researching the need of an ERP system in the organization.
Start Date and Completion Date

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The start date and the completion date of the enterprise resource planning system is
discussed below. However, prior to that, proper research is done on the need and issues of ERP
implementation in an organization (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017).
Task Name Start Finish
ERP Implementation Mon 03-09-18 Thu 04-06-19
Project Starts Mon 03-09-18 Mon 03-09-18
Planning Mon 03-09-18 Fri 05-10-18
Requirement Analysis Mon 08-10-18 Wed 14-11-18
Designing Thu 15-11-18 Wed 30-01-19
Development/Implementation Thu 31-01-19 Wed 06-03-19
Testing Thu 07-03-19 Wed 08-05-19
Maintenance Thu 09-05-19 Thu 13-06-19
Project Ends Thu 13-06-19 Thu 13-06-19
Table 1: Representing the schedule of the Project
Stakeholders
The stakeholders identified for this project are as follows-
1. The owner of the organization
2. The Project Manager
3. The Project team Members
4. The Project Sponsors
Project benefits
The project will be beneficial to the organization in which the system is to be
implemented. Manual record keeping is prone to human errors and it is time consuming as well.
On the other hand, the use of ERP system will help in easier management of all the business

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processes of the organization. Furthermore, with the implementation of ERP, the productivity
and the efficiency of the company will increase with a decrease in the production cost.
Project team
The project team will comprise of –
1. Technical experts
2. Legal advisor
3. Financial risk manager
4. Project Manager
5. Business Analyst
6. Software coders and developers
7. Software testers
Expected Outcomes
The project is expected to integrate all the business operations of an organization. The
project will make the process of information tracking and information management quite easier
in the organization. The project is expected to be completed within the estimated schedule.
Initial Cost Estimation
The initial cost estimation of the project is represented in the following table
(Seethamraju, 2015)-

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Task Name Duration Cost
ERP Implementation 2517 days $196,440.00
Project Starts 0 days $0.00
Planning 25 days $20,400.00
Requirement Analysis 28 days $36,480.00
Designing 55 days $60,200.00
Development/Implementation 25 days $27,200.00
Testing 45 days $36,000.00
Maintenance 19 days $16,160.00
Project Ends 0 days $0.00
Table 2: Representing the initial estimated cost of ERP implementation

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References
Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Leon, A. (2014). Enterprise resource planning. McGraw-Hill Education.
Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.
Seethamraju, R. (2015). Adoption of software as a service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning
(ERP) systems in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Information systems
frontiers, 17(3), 475-492.