Integration Obstacles During ERP Development

Banaeianjahromi, Negin; Kähkönen, Tommi; Alanne, Aki; Smolander, Kari

doi:10.1109/hicss.2016.582

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“…In the context of enterprise integration, EA can be utilized as a tool to determine the interconnections and technologies used between systems to evaluate the needs and impacts of integration. In our previous study, we identified the issue of inefficient architectural descriptions as a potential challenge in enterprise integration projects (Banaeianjahromi et al 2016). EA is inefficient when it is not up to date, complete, understandable, nor in detail.…”

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Lack of Communication and Collaboration in Enterprise Architecture Development

Banaeianjahromi

Smolander

2017

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Enterprise architecture (EA) is widely employed to reduce complexity and to improve business-information technology (IT) alignment. Despite the efforts by practitioners and academics in proposing approaches to smoothen EA development, it is not easy to find a fully successful EA. Because EA development is a complex endeavour, it is important to understand the obstacles that practitioners face during EA development. With the grounded theory, we studied how obstacles during EA development emerged from practitioners' point of view in 15 large enterprises. The study identifies lack of communication and collaboration as the core obstacle that can explain many other obstacles. Communication and collaboration were also harmed by other perceived EA development obstacles, including lack of knowledge and support inside organization and issues imposed by external parties, hesitation in training personnel, setting too ambitious goals, constant change of management, (lack of) clarity in EA development process, lack of budget, forcing personnel to adopt EA, lack of motivation, organizational culture, and organizational structure deficiencies. The lack of communication and collaboration caused several undesired effects to organizations, such as being unable to set common goals and achieve a shared understanding, personnel's distrust, endangered EA governance, lack of innovation capability, lost competitive edge, and ineffective EA outputs. The study highlights that organisations should improve their communication and collaboration before embarking on EA to encounter fewer obstacles. We provide four recommendations for practitioners to improve communication and collaboration in EA development.

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Lack of Communication and Collaboration in Enterprise Architecture Development

Banaeianjahromi

Smolander

2017

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“…The various obstacles or challenges faced by vendor and company are high implementation costs, lack of IT infrastructure [9], low interest level of employees, initial wrong judgment by top management about the boundary of ERP [10], differences in business process between different units of a company (heterogeneous nature), ERP system incompatibility, troublesome migration, employees resistance to change, lack of collaboration and co-operation from employees [11], failure to establish metrics [12], unrealistic expectations, poor project management [13], frequent changing of end user requirements [14], lack of incentives to employees for implementing ERP [15], under estimation of time and resources during implementation, enough data not provided by the company, no cooperation during training, business philosophy differences, lack of top management support and problems in integration with other software like PLM, CRM [3] and lack of domain knowledge of implementation engineers and software developers. The above are the major reasons provided for hindrances in ERP implementation.…”

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Analysis on obstacles hindering Textile ERP implementation

Surjit¹

2021

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Combinatorial and Optimization, ICCAP 2021, December 7-8 2021, Chennai, In

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is being used in textile and apparel companies for decades. The ERP software to be ready for usage involves various steps like evaluation, selection, negotiation, implementation and post implementation. All these processes have to be carefully handled to avail the complete benefits of using the ERP system. Although, all the above said processes are important to successful ERP usage, implementation process plays a major role as it makes or breaks the usage of ERP system. There are many companies which have removed the ERP system implemented in their company after three years due to issues in the system which were not taken care during implementation and its continued presence. Hence, proper care should be taken during the implementation process. There are various obstacles faced during implementation of ERP in a textile industry. In this study, an attempt is made to find the various obstacles that hinder implementation and then find the reasons for the obstacles. It was found that the obstacles can be classified as employee based, company based, top management based, vendor based and cost based. The critical finding from this study is that vendor based issues play a significant role in the ERP implementation processes delay. There is also equal contribution from company and top management in ensuring smooth implementation. The employee related issues are explained and solutions for taking care of that are provided. The cost based issues are highlighted and ways to minimize the issues are detailed. This study gives a clear idea that coordination at all levels by all stakeholders are required for a smooth ERP implementation process so that the benefits of ERP can be used in a longer run thereby leading to improved efficiency and productivity of a textile and apparel company.

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“…There are significant impacts to an organization that first implements and then utilizes The integration of the Enterprise Resource Planning should be viewed as an undertaking that is systematic and well planned. (Banaeianjahromi et al,2016) Multiple structures and stakeholders should be involved. In addition, organizations should ensure that the system's integration is handled at various levels.…”

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“…Planning system, problems with the incorporation of the Enterprise Resource Planning system into other systems and the transfer of data between systems, and problems with the description and adjustment of requirements and system configuration (Banaeianjahromi et al 2016).…”

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Investigation and Effectuation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems at QTX Airways Limited Company Doctoral Study Project (DSP)

Pirro

2024

SSRN Journal

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Integration Obstacles During ERP Development

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Lack of Communication and Collaboration in Enterprise Architecture Development

Lack of Communication and Collaboration in Enterprise Architecture Development

Analysis on obstacles hindering Textile ERP implementation

Investigation and Effectuation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems at QTX Airways Limited Company Doctoral Study Project (DSP)

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