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Learning Objectives
• Describe enterprise resource planning
systems.
• Describe supply chain management systems.
• Describe customer relationship management
systems.
• Discuss electronic data interchange and
extranets.
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Chapter Opening Case
Toyota
Production
System
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Toyota Production System
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(continued)
Electronic dashboard showing
status of assembly line
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Toyota Production System
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(continued)
Toyota’s
proprietary
Assembly
Line Control
System (ALCS)
software
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Enterprise Application Systems
Enterprise Resourcing Planning Systems
(ERP)
Supply Chain Management Systems
(SCM)
Customer Relationship Management
Systems (CRM)
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Global EAS Sales
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CRM
SCM
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Enterprise Resource Planning
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Systems (ERP)
• ERP is a cross-functional enterprise backbone that
integrates and automates processes within:
Manufacturing & Production
Sales & Marketing
Distribution
Finance & Accounting
Human resources
• Suite of integrated software modules and a common
central database
• Collects data from many divisions of firm for use in nearly
all of firm’s internal business activities
• Information entered in one process is immediately
available for other processes
• Enterprise software’s vendors: SAP, Oracle, SSA Global
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How Enterprise Systems Work
Enterprise
systems feature a
set of integrated
software modules
and a central
database that
enables data to be
shared by many
different business
processes and
functional areas
throughout the
enterprise
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SAP Modules
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Costs of Implementing a New ERP
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Causes of ERP Failures
• Most common causes of ERP failure
– Under-estimating the complexity of planning,
development, training
– Failure to involve affected employees in
planning and development
– Trying to do too much too fast
– Insufficient training
– Insufficient data conversion and testing
– Over-reliance on ERP vendor or consultants
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Supply Chain Management
Systems (SCM)
refers to the flow of materials,
information, money, and services from raw
material suppliers, through factories and
warehouses, to the end customers.
is the
function of planning, organizing and optimizing
the supply chain’s activities
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Supply Chain
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Generic Supply Chain
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Problems Along the Supply
Chain
• Poor customer service
• Poor quality product
• High inventory costs
• Loss of revenues
• New technologies
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Problems Along the Supply Chain
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• Problems stem mainly from two sources:
– Uncertainties due to demand forecast, delivery
times, quality problems in materials and parts that
can create production delays;
– The need to coordinate several activities, internal
units and business partners.
• Bullwhip effect refers to erratic shifts in
orders up and down the supply chain.
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Push- Versus Pull-Based Supply
Chain Models
The difference between push- and pull-based models is summarized by the
slogan “Make what we sell, not sell what we make.”
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Goals of SCM
• The goal of SCM is to efficiently
– Forecast demand
– Control inventory
– Enhance relationships with customers, suppliers,
distributors, and others
– Receive feedback on the status of every link in the
supply chain
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SCM Applications
• Supply chain planning systems
• Model existing supply chain
• Demand planning
• Optimize sourcing, manufacturing plans
• Establish inventory levels
• Identifying transportation modes
• Supply chain execution systems
• Manage flow of products through distribution centers and
warehouses
• Software’s vendors: Manugistics, i2 Technologies
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Global Supply Chains &
the Internet
• Before Internet, supply chain coordination hampered
by difficulties of using disparate internal supply chain
systems
• Enterprise systems supply some integration of internal
supply chain processes but not designed to deal with
external supply chain processes
• Intranets and Extranets
• Intranets: To improve coordination among internal supply
chain processes
• Extranets
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Customer Relationship
Management
• Knowing the customer
• In large businesses, too many customers and too many
ways customers interact with firm
• Customer relationship management (CRM) systems
• Capture and integrate customer data from all over the
organization
• Consolidate and analyze customer data
• Distribute customer information to various systems and
customer touch points across enterprise
• Provide single enterprise view of customers
• Help keep profitable customers and maximizes lifetime
revenue from them.
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CRM Definition
CRM = Customer Relationship Management
Attracting, developing and maintaining
successful customer relationships over time
A strategy for identifying, satisfying, retaining
and maximizing the value of a company’s
best customers
All processes and technologies that
organizations use to identify, select, acquire,
develop, retain, and better serve customers
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Four Levels of CRM
• Strategic CRM
– A top-down perspective on CRM which views CRM as a core
customer-centric business strategy that aims at winning and keeping
profitable customers
• Operational CRM
– Customer-facing applications that integrate the front, back and mobile
offices, including sales-force automation, enterprise marketing
automation, and customer service and support
• Analytical CRM
– Applications that analyze customer data generated by operational
tools for the purpose of business performance management
• Collaborative/ Communicational/Interactive CRM
– Collaborative services that facilitate interactions between customers
and businesses
– Help to establish the lifetime value of customers beyond the
transaction by creating a partnering relationship
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Three Areas in Operational CRM
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Customer Touch Points
Telephone
Conventional mail
Help desk
Web site
E-mail
Store
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Software as a Service for CRM
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• Software’s Vendors: Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, SAP,
Salesforce.com
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Analytical CRM
• Analyze customer data output from operational CRM
applications
• Based on data warehouses populated by operational
CRM systems and customer touch points
• Customer lifetime value (CLTV)
• Analytical CRM is inextricably tied to a Data
Warehouse architecture, and use analytical
applications to leverage optimized functionality for
analysis and reporting
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Analytical CRM Data
Warehouse
Analytical CRM uses a customer data warehouse and tools to analyze customer data collected from the
firm’s customer touch points and from other sources.
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CRM Failures
• Business benefits of CRM are not guaranteed
– 50 percent of CRM projects did not produce promised
results
– 20 percent damaged customer relationships
• Reasons for failure
– Lack of understanding and preparation
– Not solving business process problems first
– No participation on part of business stakeholders
involved
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Putting it all together
The relationships among SCM, ERP, and CRM
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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
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& Extranets
is a
communication standard that enables
business partners to exchange routine
documents, such as purchase orders,
electronically.
link business partners to one
another over the Internet by providing
access to certain areas of each other’s
corporate intranets.
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EDI Benefits
• Minimize data entry errors
• Length of messages are shorter
• Messages are secured
• Reduces cycle time
• Increases productivity
• Enhances customer service
• Minimizes paper usage and storage
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The Structure of an Extranet
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Types of Extranets
A company and its dealers, customers or
suppliers
An industry’s extranet
Joint ventures and other business partnerships
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