An ERP Implementation Method : Studying a Pharmaceutical Company

TL;DR

This paper examines a structured ERP implementation process using SAP in a pharmaceutical company, emphasizing the role of conceptual modeling to streamline development and align enterprise goals with SAP functionalities.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic ERP implementation method utilizing conceptual modeling to improve alignment and reuse of knowledge in a real-world pharmaceutical context.

Findings

Modeling facilitates ERP development by capturing best practices.

Conceptual schemata aid in aligning enterprise goals with SAP processes.

The approach improves efficiency and knowledge reuse in ERP projects.

Abstract

Analysing the development process for an ERP solution, in our case SAP, is one of the most critical processes in implementing standard software packages. Modelling of the proposed system can facilitate the development of enterprise systems not from scratch but through use of predefined parts who represents the best knowledge captured from numerous case studies. This aim at abstracting the specification of the required information system as well as modelling the process towards this goal. Modelling plays a central role in the organisation of the information systems development process and the information systems community has developed a large number of conceptual models, systems of concepts, for representing conceptual schemata. In the area of ERP systems, because of the characteristics that distinguishes them, conceptual modelling can help in all aspects of the development process, from goal elicitation to reuse of the captured knowledge, through the use of the appropriate modelling schemata. SAP offers a standardised software solution, thus making easier the alignment of SAP requirements to enterprise requirements in a goal form, and the correspondent business processes.