This paper is concerned with demand planning for internal supply chains consisting of workstations, production facilities, warehouses, and transportation links. We address the issue of how to help a supplier firmly accept orders and subsequently plan to fulfill demand. We first formulate a...

In a new type of automated parts-to-picker warehouse system – a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS) – robots are sent to transport pods (movable shelves) to human operators at stations to pick/put items from/to pods. There are many operational decision problems in such a system, and...

The equity risk premium is the price of risk in equity markets, and it is a key input in estimating costs of equity and capital in both corporate finance and valuation. Given its importance, it is surprising how haphazard the estimation of equity risk premiums remains in practice. We begin this...

Dynamic IT environment, increased spending on cloud-based applications and ever- growing power of digital transformation is forcing companies to embrace change. Digital transformation is the process of a company undergoing multiple changes internal and external leveraging digital technologies to...

The Industry 4.0 and business intelligence era, in which automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies becomes a prerequisite. Therefore, companies aspiring for achieving competitive advantage need to be updated with the latest technologies. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)...

Given the dearth of studies in developing and Asian countries’ context, the present study attempts to excavate the predictors of enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption and implementation. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model and open innovation...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have played an important role in economic development. The increasing number of SMEs have resulted in the business landscape to become more and more competitive. This has made SMEs to also undergo great challenges to be able to maintain their existence and...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are struggling to survive in the present competitive environment. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies have great potential to facilitate firms in achieving sustainable competitive advantages and to survive in such situations. However, the adoption...

The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system on Intention Behavior at start up business. The research method is quantitative with the type of case study research. Based on the...

This exploratory qualitative single-case study examines critical challenges encountered during ERP implementation based on individual perspectives in four project roles: senior leaders, project managers, project team members, and business users, all specifically in Canadian oil and gas industry....

This exploratory qualitative single case study discusses the benefits and process improvements pertinent to enterprise resource and planning (ERP) projects. The study was conducted in a Canadian case organization in the oil and gas industry that includes twenty participants from four project...

This study examines large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation success factors by looking at their impact on the balanced scorecard (BSC) indicators. Survey research was applied to collect data from large private and public companies (n=275) that have already implemented...

Purpose- Enterprise resource planning is a growing concept in the current scenario of globalization and digitization of business activities. The increase in the business functioning to global world has led to the increased use of software to improve business efficiency. The main purpose of the...

Over the last decade Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) have been adopted by many companies as it contributes to the development and profitability of the organizations by business solutions. Once configured it allows information to enter at a single point in the process, and also updates a...

The results obtained establish that there is a positive correlation between firm valuation and Enterprise Resource Management implementation. However, the results are analyzed at a deeper level to see how ERM is dependent on firm size and some other factors. Resource management has always been a...

The demand for more productivity, cost efficiency and the competition has forced the knitwear garments cluster to adopt technologies such as ERP. The knitwear garment industry acts as a cluster and possesses unique characteristics. The industrial clusters experience an institutional isomorphic...

Business Analysis is an art of its own kind . Unlike any other role a business analyst role is an amalgamation of soft skills, domain experience, functional and technical knowledge, ability to zoom in-out, multitask, manage priorities, produce fool proof signed off output at every stage and...

ERP systems have distinct advantages and have radically changed the financial reporting system. This study examined the effect of ERP implementation on real earnings management in an emerging economy, specifically in the context of Bangladesh. Using a sample of 1914 firm year observations during...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a software package, where it integrates the functional departments of an organization. In this article, an ERP package called Odoo (formally Open ERP) is a web based application. It supports the business processes of an organization. Odoo meets all the...

"What does it mean to move your supply chain to the cloud? With this guide to SAP Integrated Business Planning, get the complete S&OP, demand, response and supply, and inventory planning picture-and then learn to monitor and control these processes. You'll understand how to set up and use your...

Introduction to enterprise systems and technological convergence / Sam Goundar -- An ERP implementation framework for regional enterprises / Sam Goundar, Tevita Kengike, Hosea Vao, Samaluta Nunaia, Lewis Alexander, and Tabakea Tareti -- ERP implementation challenges and critical success factors...