Erp - Making It Happen: The Implementers' Guide to Success with Enterprise Resource Planning
Author: Thomas F Wallac
Follow the "Proven Path" to successful implementation of enterprise resource planning
Effective forecasting, planning, and scheduling is fundamental to productivity-and ERP is a fundamental way to achieve it. Properly implementing ERP will give you a competitive advantage and help you run your business more effectively, efficiently, and responsively. This guide is structured to support all the people involved in ERP implementation-from the CEO and others in the executive suite to the people doing the detailed implementation work in sales, marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, logistics, finance, and elsewhere.
This book is not primarily about computers and software. Rather, its focus is on people-and how to provide them with superior decision-making processes for customer order fulfillment, supply chain management, financial planning, e-commerce, asset management, and more. This comprehensive guide can be used as a selective reference for those, like top management, who need only specific pieces of information, or as a virtual checklist for those who can use detailed guidance every step of the way.
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ERP, a buzz phrase of the 1990s' new-economy expansion, involves deploying business processes that are supposed to help manufacturing companies improve customer service and productivity while lowering costs and inventories. Many companies that implemented ERP in the '90s did not see dramatic benefits, however; often this was because, according to Wallace and Kremzar, they adopted enterprise software without making other needed changes. For managers as well as anyone involved in ERP implementation (in sales, marketing, logistics, finance, etc.), Wallace (Ohio State U.) and Kremzar (retired from Procter & Gamble) map a path to implementing ERP correctly, with a focus less on software and more on strategic planning. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| How to Use This Book | xi | |
| Part I | Introduction | |
| Chapter 1 | Enterprise Resource Planning | 3 |
| Chapter 2 | The Implementation Challenge | 23 |
| Part II | Company-Wide Implementation | |
| Chapter 3 | Company-Wide Implementation--Overview | 43 |
| Chapter 4 | Software | 57 |
| Chapter 5 | Getting Ready | < TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="RIGHT">79|
| Chapter 6 | Project Launch | 109 |
| Chapter 7 | Initial Education | 135 |
| Chapter 8 | Sales & Operations Planning | 165 |
| Chapter 9 | Process Definition | 179 |
| Chapter 10 | Data Integrity | 195 |
| Chapter 11 | Going on the Air--Basic ERP (Phase I) | 219 |
| Chapter 12 | Going on the Air--Supply Chain Integration (Phase II) | 243 |
| Part III | Quick-Slice Implementation | |
| Chapter 13 | Quick-Slice ERP--Overview | 271 |
| Chapter 14 | Quick-Slice ERP--Implementation | 281 |
| Part IV | Beyond ERP Implementation | |
| Chapter 15 | Operating ERP | 305 |
| Chapter 16 | The Strategic Future (Phase III) | 319 |
| Appendix A | The Fundamentals of Enterprise Resource Planning | 333 |
| Appendix B | Plant Floor Organization Formats: Job Shop versus Flow Shop | 341 |
| Appendix C | Sample Implementation Plan | 347 |
| Appendix D | ERP Support Resources | 349 |
| Glossary | 351 | |
| Index | 365 |
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Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan (AFP Fund Development Series)
Author: Linda Lysakowski ACFR
Praise for Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan
"Linda provides a very practical outlook on how to succeed in developing and implementing a fundraising plan for a nonprofit organization. The importance of the various players and their roles—staff, board, and volunteers—is critical for any nonprofit organization, and the information in Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan could effectively be used by any size organization to organize and execute an effective development strategy."
—Diane Hartz Warsoff, Executive Director Utah Nonprofits Association
"An excellent road map for creating a development plan and building the necessary staff and volunteer ownership of the plan, Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan is a valuable resource for every nonprofit that wants to raise increased funds more effectively and efficiently. Its tips and real-world scenario sections help to make the case that organizations must take the time to plan adequately if they want to be successful."
—Barbara L. Ciconte, CFRE, Senior Vice President Donor Strategies, Inc.
"Linda Lysakowski's Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan provides the resources, tools, guidance, and step-by-step processes for any organization to successfully create and manage a development plan. Her inclusion of tips and techniques, real-world stories, and her focus on organization-wide involvement make this essential reading not only for development officers, but for senior staff and board members."
—Eugene A. Scanlan, PhD, CFRE, President eScanlan Company
One of the most significant factorsin the success of any fundraising program is the ability and willingness of the organization to take the time to develop an integrated development plan with realistic budgets, timelines, and areas of responsibility.
Part of the AFP/ Wiley Fund Devel opment Series, Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan takes the reader through the development planning process and helps both novice development officers and seasoned professionals to create a plan that contributes to an organization's realization of its mission. Exhorting readers to ensure their plan is a living instrument and not just a document sitting on a shelf, nonprofit expert Linda Lysakowski includes examples of typical development plan formats as well as timelines for the planning process to help users identify the level of detail that will be required.
Whether large or small, your organization will benefit from Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan. This professional guide's nuts-and-bolts presentation equips your organization to create a dynamic development plan that fosters enthusiasm, cultivates a sense of confidence, and helps track success.
Table of Contents:
Introduction XVWhy a Development Plan 1
Who Needs to Be Involved in the Planning Process? 17
Planning to Plan 37
The Process 71
The Product 91
Implementing the Plan 159
Evaluating Success 181
The Next Step 193
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