Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems

Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems

Angappa Gunasekaran

Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 392

ISBN13: 9781599044774|ISBN10: 1599044773|EISBN13: 9781599044798|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616927806

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-477-4

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Insight into issues, challenges, and solutions related to the successful applications and management aspects of enterprise information systems may provide to be a hardship to researchers and practitioners.

Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems covers current trends and issues in various enterprise information systems such as enterprise resource planning, electronic commerce, and their implications on supply chain management and organizational competitiveness.

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

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Chapter 1

Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Issues and Challenges (pages 1-19)

Girish H. Subramanian, Christopher S. Hoffer

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are a growing area of research in business information systems. The primary purpose of this research is to review the literature on ERP implementation and to present results of a case study...

Chapter 2

Research Issues of the IT Productivity Paradox: Approaches, Limitations, and a Proposed Conceptual Framework (pages 20-62)

Chuck C.H. Law, Eric W.T. Ngai

Although corporations in the western world, especially those in the United States, have spent generously on information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) in recent decades, many empirical studies have found limited...

Chapter 3

The Effects of Uncertainty on ERP-Controlled Manufacturing Supply Chains (pages 63-86)

S. C. Lenny Koh, Angappa Gunasekaran

The use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) is becoming increasingly prevalent in many modern manufacturing supply chains. However, knowledge of their performance when perturbed by several significant uncertainties simultaneously...

Chapter 4

Software Architectures and Requirements for a Web-Based Survey System (pages 87-109)

Dirk Baldwin, Suresh Chalasani

Many businesses obtain feedback by surveying customers and business partners. Increasingly, these surveys are conducted via the Web. This chapter reviews briefly literature regarding Web-based surveys and describes a software...

Chapter 5

Identity Theft and E-Fraud Driving CRM Information Exchanges (pages 110-133)

Alan D. Smith, Allen R. Lias

Fraud and identity theft have been increasing with the use of e-commerce. In the U.S. alone, it has been estimated that victims may spend on average $1,500 in out-of-pocket expenses and an average of 175 hours in order to resolve the...

Chapter 6

Pricing Outcomes in Dual-Channel Monopoly and Partial Duopoly (pages 134-149)

Farooq M. Sheikh, M. Ruhul Amin, Nafeez Amin

In this chapter, the authors first study the pricing strategies of a monopolist selling a product through stores in two channels, but under single management (or coordinated management) and then propose a framework for a model for a...

Chapter 7

Enterprise Information Systems and B2B E-Commerce: Enhancing Secure Transactions Using XM (pages 150-166)

C. Richard Baker

While the overall investment in information technology (IT) decreased somewhat during the first several years of the 21st century, B2B e-commerce technologies have expanded at an increasing rate (Lim & Wen, 2002). The expansion of...

Chapter 8

Unleashing the Potential of SCM: The Adoption of ERP in Large Danish Enterprises (pages 167-182)

Charles Møller

This chapter argues that with the present state of enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption by the companies, the potential benefits of supply chain management (SCM) and integration is about to be unleashed. This chapter presents...

Chapter 9

Using Simulation to Evaluate Electronic Data Interchange (pages 183-200)

Dothang Truong

Reluctance of organizations to invest in electronic data interchange (EDI, Internet based EDI, and XML/EDI) is largely due to their inability to assess the return on these investments. We identify prescriptive and evaluative...

Chapter 10

Vertical Application Service Provision: An SME Perspective (pages 201-223)

Nigel J. Lockett, David H. Brown

Against a background of the low engagement of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in e-business, this chapter investigates the impact of e-aggregation applications, provided by emerging vertical application service providers...

Chapter 11

Planning and Designing an Enterprise-Wide Database System for E-Business (pages 224-248)

Alexander Y. Yap

The planning and development of an enterprise-wide electronic database system for e-business usually calls for the re-engineering of information processes coupled with a push toward data content standardization across the entire...

Chapter 12

Toward Always-On Enterprise Information Systems (pages 249-283)

Nijaz Bajgoric

Significant changes in information technology (IT), the Internet, and e-business technology have increased the need for continuous and agile data access, in particular for mission-critical applications. Modern business computing has...

Chapter 13

The Financial Appraisal Profile (FAP) Model for Evaluation of Enterprise-Wide Information Technology: A Case Example (pages 284-310)

Frank Lefley, Joseph Sarkis

Enterprise-wide information systems adoption by organizations has become common place. Even with the benefits offered by such systems, there have also been many failures. One of the important reasons for these failures is...

Chapter 14

An Investigation of the Existence of Levels of Enterprise Integration (pages 311-338)

Delvin Grant, Qiang Tu

A primary objective of ERP is to integrate the various parts of a company. The chapter discusses six levels of enterprise integration and the ability of ERP to satisfy each of them. We analyzed six case studies that included IBM...

Chapter 15

Analyzing Different Strategies to Enterprise System Adoption: Re-Engineering-Led vs. Quick Deployment (pages 339-358)

Sue Newell, Jay Cooprider, Gary David, Linda Edelman, Traci Logan

The literature on enterprise systems (ES) adoptions suggests that companies use different strategies; some opting to re-engineer business processes up-front, while others employ a quick deployment strategy on the assumption that...

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