Implementing an ERP System: The Paradigm of a Chemical Company

TL;DR

This paper applies an existing ERP implementation methodology to a chemical company, analyzing its effectiveness and refining it using Petri-nets, and presents insights from a SAP implementation case study.

Contribution

It adapts and evaluates a prior ERP implementation methodology for a chemical company, enhancing understanding with Petri-nets and case-specific insights.

Findings

Methodology effectively addresses chemical industry ERP challenges

Petri-nets facilitate detailed process analysis

SAP implementation case provides practical knowledge

Abstract

An application of a methodology present in the previous paper An ERP Implementation Method: Studying a Pharmaceutical Company, is under consideration for a chemical company. Half of the paper as far as the methodology used is similar and only the application is different. In this paper it is tried to resolve problems and drawbacks of the methodology and to prove that it is satisfied enough to add some knowledge in the area of ERP systems Implementation. The modelling tool is again Petri-nets and the effort is to analyze the problem using this mathematical element. Finally, the SAP implementation method is presented, representing all the knowledge captured from this case study.