4) Read Introduction and Section 5.4 of \"Yusuf, Yahaya, Angappa Gunasekaran, an

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4) Read Introduction and Section 5.4 of "Yusuf, Yahaya, Angappa Gunasekaran, and Mark S. Abthorpe. "Enterprise information systems project implementation: A case study of ERP in Rolls-Royce." International Journal of Production Economics 87.3 (2004): 251-266.", and answer the following questions: a) Describe the process Rolls-Royce went through when implementing ERP, what are the main stages of implementation, which departments are involved in the ERP system and how long does it take? b) What are the main difficulties of implementation?

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Answer- The company needs to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning system after having trouble with Oracle. SAP would be the best recommended ERP system for Rolls Royce as SAP has been devoted to provide products that would improve the return and management of information collected by the organization. Software packages that would be best suited for to meet the current requirements at Rolls Royce would be SAP R/3

It is an integrated computer system that can manage and sustain the entire business management tasks of an organization. In Rolls Royce, SAP r/3 can handle business process such as Invoice payment, Production resource management and Financial account control. These tasks can be accomplished by employing various modules such as MM (Materials Management) and SD (Sales Distribution). All these modules come under the SAP itself the communication between departments would not be a problem anymore at Rolls Royce.

SAP Aerospace and Defense (A&D) is known for its configurable flexibility. The system allows intelligent and quick response to demand and supply of dynamics across global supply network to serve the purpose of outstanding performance based services. SAP for A&D supports processes in Manufacturing, Operations, Proposal management, Program management, Project management, Contract management, Manufacturing management, Order management.

Implementation- Design Specifications: Royce’s policies, procedures etc. and identify required specifications including: Integrate Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement and Distribution of Rolls Royce Business Processes workflow.

To connect all departments and sectors through SAP R/3, so that one can instantly retrieve data from any department Strategic business Units (SBUs) The outcome of the study will be a detailed design specification namely: 1. Project Configuration Document

2. The Information Management Policy document

These are used to determine: 1. Placeholder documents

2. Document Attributes (types, categorization and classification)

3. Document Fields (confidentiality, identification and traceability mandatory inputs in predefined format) 4. Mail attributes

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