High Performance Computing and Enterprise Resource Planning

Identifying major issues summary

At one point HPC did not have a clear and concise way of viewing management reports. HPC has set its position as becoming the premier chemical company all over Asia and the world; it had a sale of $10Billion US dollars, but still wanted and needed to grow. HPC plans on accomplishing this by fortifying and firming up its existing business, prolonging their over sees business, and creating new businesses. The problem arises when managing its widespread outfits. HPC needs a more dependable, consistent, and trustworthy set of reports to view and make critical decisions on and against, as these reports need to provide accurate real time information on management performance, sales, and reducing costs. The problem with the current reports is they are not accurate. HPC’s legacy system presented managers with reports that were sterilized to make departments and individuals look better. This scenario will break a company as wrong data is sent up the chain of command to be reviewed and analyzed. Reports were monotonous and were presented only on an intermittent base. (Laudon, 2013)

To alleviate this business process, HPC needs a better, up to date, real time reporting tool that executives can access at any time and see raw untouched data. HPC chose SAP Business Objects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Web intelligence. The issue always comes about when planning, costs, ROI, what is needed, what is not needed, when to roll it out, and training staff. The information systems department took lead and met with executives to produce a list of existing reports, and to measure the practicality of each. Another challenge was to wait until HPC was skilled and qualified with the ERP software , and its...

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... company with its business objectives. This can be accomplished by selecting information to be distributed throughout the organization and vendors. This information enables the end-users, employees’ and vendors to be attentive to the most critical information made available. (Business Intelligence)

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Gumz, F. R. (2003, April). The Roles of the User in Project Planning an ERP . Retrieved April 19, 2014, from nextgenerp.com: http://www.nextgenerp.com/uploads/2/6/1/4/2614417/the_roles_of_the_user_in_project_planning_an_erp_implementation.pdf

Laudon, K. C. (2013). Management Information Systems. In K. C. Laudon, Managing the Digital Firm (pp. 524-525). Pearson.