Technological Factors Relevant to Continuity on ERP for E-Business Platform: Integration, Modularity, and Flexibility

Turner, Douglas E.; Chung, Sock H.

doi:10.1300/j179v04n04_08

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“…Business organisations are constantly looking for ways to gain an advantage over their competitors (Beyleveld & Schurink, 2005;Castaneda & Toulson, 2013). Historically, their focus was on producing as much as possible without considering exact demand (Turner & Chung, 2005). Recently, businesses have embarked upon finding more efficient ways to deal with large turnovers (Umble, Haft & Umble, 2003).…”

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A structural model of technology acceptance

2015

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Orientation: Enterprise resource systems have not always led to significant organisational enhancement and many projects in which these systems have been implemented turn out to be over budget, not on time and unsuccessful.Research purpose: The aim of this study was to test the technology acceptance model within a South African SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning user environment.Motivation for the study: No study could be traced in which the technology acceptance model has been evaluated in the South African context.Research approach, design and method: A cross-sectional survey design was used. The 23-item Technology Acceptance Model Questionnaire was deployed amongst SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning users (N = 241). Main findings: The results confirmed significant paths from perceived usefulness of the information system to attitudes towards and behavioural intentions to use it. Furthermore, behavioural intention to use the system predicted actual use thereof. Perceived ease of use indirectly affected attitudes towards and behavioural intentions to use via perceived usefulness of the information system.Practical/managerial implications: Practitioners should build user confidence by ensuring the ease of use of a new system, providing relevant education, training and guidance and reiterating its usefulness and future added value to the user’s job and career.Contribution/value-add: This study contributes to scientific knowledge regarding the influence of individuals’ perceptions of information system usage on their attitudes, behavioural intentions and actual use of such a system.

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“…Also, it is stated that internal integration deals with interrelationships and trade-offs within a firm while external integration refers to coordination with customers and/or suppliers (Welker et al, 2008). The evolution of the Internet and web technologies have changed the focus of integration, to consider also external stakeholders, to connect customers and suppliers through CRM and SCM to the ERP system (Búrca et al, 2005;Turner and Chung, 2005).…”

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“…Benefits: (Kang et al, 2008) S (Uwizeyemungu and Raymond, 2012) MCS (Ranganathan and Brown, 2006) S Benefits: (Zheng et al, 2000) CS (Ghani et al, 2009) CS (Chung et al, 2011) LS Benefits: (Hwang and Grant, 2011) S Characteristics of ERP: (Turner and Chung, 2005) CR (Baki and Çakar, 2005) S…”

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“…A number of studies that investigate certain quality attributes of ERP systems or evaluate the relationships between ERP benefits and integration have been conducted from different viewpoints. A framework is proposed to evaluate the potential of ERP to e-business by considering flexibility, modularity and integration of an ERP system (Turner and Chung, 2005).…”

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ERP Integration - A Systematic Mapping Study

Kähkönen¹,

Smolander

2013

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

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Companies have been adopting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for decades in order to integrate business functions to increase their competitiveness. The original goal of ERP was to provide an all-in-one integrated suite for the enterprise. However, in a modern business environment, ERPs are integrated externally with customers, suppliers and business partners and internally with continuously changing system landscape of the enterprise. In this paper we present a systematic mapping study that investigates how ERP integration-related issues have been studied by the academia between 1998 and 2012. Studies about technological issues are mostly dealing with systems inside a company whereas studies on methodological issues focus on the integration of the supply chain management and e-business. However, these studies are often either carried out without a rigorous research method or they are based on single cases only. Quantitative methods have been mainly used to investigate quality attributes of ERPs. It is still unclear, how integration issues are effectively solved by a network of stakeholders in an ERP project. This requires more research in the future.

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“…Third, sample cases from industries have been used to support the research approach. This methodology has been employed in the process of constructing factors for other IT studies (e.g., Turner and Chung, 2005;Lewis, Snyder & Rainer, 1995). Likewise, the factors of linking ERP and SCM systems have been defined using content analysis of the IT/IS, SCM and organization literature.…”

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Modularity, Integration and IT Personnel Skills Factors in Linking ERP to SCM Systems

Chung

Tang

Ahmad

2011

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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This study investigates some underlying technological factors for linking enterprise resource planning (ERP) to supply chain management (SCM) systems. ERP systems serve technological requirements across functional areas within a corporate boundary while SCM systems focus on collaborative relationships with partners in the supply chain, emphasizing business process integration and information sharing through IT. In order to facilitate SCM operations for business planning and decision making, an ERP system must be extensible in terms of support for a range of external constituents in the supply chain. The research reported in this paper investigates these linkages and provides a framework for developing and evaluating SCM processes in order to serve enterprise needs in terms of resource management for scalability, implementation costs and operational efficiency for meeting the business objectives.

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Technological Factors Relevant to Continuity on ERP for E-Business Platform: Integration, Modularity, and Flexibility

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

A structural model of technology acceptance

A structural model of technology acceptance

ERP Integration - A Systematic Mapping Study

Modularity, Integration and IT Personnel Skills Factors in Linking ERP to SCM Systems

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